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Western Europe Sees Hottest June on Record Amid Extreme Heatwaves (france24.com) 47

Posted by msmash from the troubling-signs dept.
Western Europe sweltered through its hottest June on record last month, as "extreme" temperatures blasted the region in punishing back-to-back heatwaves, the EU climate monitor Copernicus said Wednesday. From a report: Globally, this past June was the third warmest on record, continuing a blistering heat streak in recent years as the planet warms as a result of humanity's emissions of greenhouse gases. The previous hottest June was in 2024 and the second hottest was in 2023, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said. Sweltering extremes were particularly pronounced in Europe, which is warming several times faster than the global average.

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Western Europe Sees Hottest June on Record Amid Extreme Heatwaves

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  • Ruh Row /. Trigger Alert (Score:5, Funny)

    by zawarski ( 1381571 ) on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:31PM (#65508142)
    In the order of /. triggers, I would rank climate somewhere between DEI and UBI.

    • Re:Ruh Row /. Trigger Alert (Score:4, Insightful)

      by ArchieBunker ( 132337 ) on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:43PM (#65508178)

      Get ready for arguments of bad measurements or data manipulation. We've had accurate thermometers for several centuries now and if the data is indeed manipulated then why doesn't someone run new models to disprove the current results? You'd be a MAGA hero and prove all those nasty liberals wrong.

      crickets

      Yep thought so.

      • It's like people claiming protestors are being paid to protest Trump or his cabal. If they're sure people are getting paid, why not sign up, get paid, and tell everyone the truth?

        crickets

      • Weather vs Climate (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Roger W Moore ( 538166 ) on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:44PM (#65508318) Journal

        Get ready for arguments of bad measurements or data manipulation.

        No, just misleading presentation of the data. The headline should be "Europe breaks record for Hottest June 3 times in 3 years". Breaking one record is just weather, breaking two might be considered unlucky but when you break the same record over 3 consecutive years it's hard to see how that is not a very clear signal for climate change.

        That's my biggest beef about the media reporting on climate change. They do not understand the difference between weather and climate and they tend to focus on reporting the weather as "evidence" of climate. Indeed, as this article shows, even when they are literally sitting on clear data that show significant climate change what they choose to focus on is how hot it was last month!

  • Every time slashdot posts a climate change story I lower my thermostat by 1 degree. Not denying anything, just being a dick

    • Every time slashdot posts a climate change story I lower my thermostat by 1 degree.

      Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin, and I'm sure you must have hit that already.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by XanC ( 644172 )

        0 Kelvin, not 0 degrees Kelvin. In practice his limit is likely 0 Rankine.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by GoTeam ( 5042081 )

        Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin, and I'm sure you must have hit that already.

        Nah, just add a window unit [imgur.com] and start dropping the temp on it each time.

      • Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin

        Yes you can [wikipedia.org] but it is really hard to achieve and it is something hotter than any positive temperature since the higher energy states are more likely to be populated than lower energy ones. Indeed, if the OP has achieved this it's possible they might actually be the cause of global warming...

      • Every time slashdot posts a climate change story I lower my thermostat by 1 degree.

        Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin, and I'm sure you must have hit that already.

        Especially since the Kelvin scale doesn't even HAVE degrees.

        You cant go below a million "degrees Kelvin" either.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by armada ( 553343 )
      I, on the other hand, buy another lithium battery containing cobalt to "fight global warming" and I get to keep another 7 year old "artisanal cobalt miner" in the Congo employed.
    • Even in winter? Cool...

  • I wonder how they're doing in the EU these days.

    • I wonder how they're doing in the EU these days.

      Heat pumps are air conditioners and there's been incentives inside Europe to get more heat pumps, be that government subsidies, high natural gas prices, or heat waves. I found a couple articles with a quick search of the web.
      From April 2025: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hea... [yahoo.com]
      From September 2024: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hea... [yahoo.com]

      It appears to me the primary driver to heat pump sales is natural gas prices. If things get worse with shipping LNG to Europe then natural gas prices will increase. With that will

      • Maybe the EU will conduct an investigation and decide to just ban undesirable weather.

      • If global warming is making the weather more volatile then is it wise to invest in energy production that varies so much from weather?

        Or, y'know... just diversify your renewables. Solar, wind, hydro, tidal, etc.

        In the UK, for example, the problem in the UK isn't renewable generation - we've got loads of it, in Scotland we now generate more from renewables than we actually use - but deficits in the national grid infrastructure mean that transporting energy to where it's actually needed is often impossible, so the efficiencies aren't fully realised.

        There have been calls to split the grid into smaller markets so energy must be sold closer to

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gweihir ( 88907 )

      Last year, pretty insane with prices in summer literally 3x that of winter for mobile units. This year most people that are going to get one seem to already have one. I have one too, bought in winter. I figure if I essentially pay about $10 for a day of running it (electricity and device), but can work a lot better, that is entirely worth it. Have run it for about 7 days in the last 2 weeks. Has been cool enough outside at night for the last 3 days again to run a fan instead.

      • There are many, many, MANY sacrifices I will make to be comfortable in my own home. I'm not going to sit at home with sweat pouring down my face. I also will not sit at home with an arctic weather suit on. I will certainly vote against anyone who tries to make me do either one of those two things.

  • According to the actual report, the data only goes back to 1950, so "hottest on record" is somewhat meaningless.

    • Not really, because the data actually goes back to 1850 and the 1850-1900 average temperature is used as a pre-industrial baseline which most reports use. There's also no real need to present data before 1950 about anomalies and extremes covering the majority of Europe since they are very few and can be counted as outliers.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dbialac ( 320955 )
        Uhm... no. Temperatures were abnormally cool in the 1960s into the early 1970s, so they're not a good baseline. Mind you, all of that pollution might have actually been cooling the planet, but I digress. Going back to the 1850s doesn't, either. When you properly account for things like variations in the earths orbit and tilt, you get a baseline number, and you need 30 samples to get an accurate sample. Given the tilt and orbit variations, you get one sample every 30,000 years. Thus, you need 900,000 years o

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by dbialac ( 320955 )
          I forgot to bring up the whole thing with sulfur in the exhaust of ship fuel. How far along is the process of restoring the clouds this created, that in turn cooled the earth? It seems the climate change people could learn from software engineers and have a rollback process in place for major screw ups like this. For those not familiar with it, there was an article on, IIRC, science.org in June 2023 talking about this. It may have been science.com, but I'm pretty certain it's the former.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by armada ( 553343 )
        I wonder what effect surrounding a weather station with more and more concrete every year has on it's localized readings?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by znrt ( 2424692 )

      obligatory:

      https://media.tenor.com/GElyvu... [tenor.com]

  • Waiting for the next two months (Score:3)

    by JamesTRexx ( 675890 ) on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:33PM (#65508412) Journal

    I didn't have much trouble with this month but then I live in a cooler part of The Netherlands. I care more about night time temperatures though. As long as they are low I can open up all windows and use a couple of fans to force hotter air out or cooler in.
    We'll have to see how the next two months will turn out.

    Luckily I have seen less mosquitos at night as well (thanks for degrading the bio diversity) to bother me. Speaking of which, I also noticed a significant drop in the presence of spiders this year. I guess they don't do well on a reduced food intake diet.

    • Have you noticed a reduction of insects in general? I don't see many lightning bugs, for example, and normally, during the warmer months, the windshield splatter is nearly impossible to see-through. But lately, I can drive all day and my windshield is fine at the end of the drive. While that's nice, I worry that it portends something more dire.

      • I have doubts that bugs hitting windshields is a reliable metric for insect populations.

        It seems to me that there's been considerable improvements in aerodynamics on vehicles that create an invisible "force field" of airflow across the glass that keeps the bugs from hitting the windshield. This was known decades ago with add-on bug screens that could be bolted to the front of the hood to divert air and decrease bugs hitting the windshield. Some were better than others, but even the worse of them would hel

        • Maybe with higher-end vehicles, the bugs just never even touch, but my Transit 250 delivery van is about as low-tech as they get. If there's something nearby, my windshield will hit it.

          Two long-distance trips ago, I had to use the windshield wipers and sprayers to get the bug residue off, and it was actually a bit odd, because it was the first time this season, in about 15 trips in warm weather. Maybe you're somewhat younger, but bug splat used to be a regular thing in summer driving. Manufacturers so

      • I noticed less bug splatter years ago already but haven't owned a car for over at least six years now.
        Things I noticed was less bees and wasps over the years along with butterflies. This year has also been quiet for regular flies, which were abundant over a year ago.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Unfortunately a lot of homes in the UK were badly designed, or more accurately not designed at all. They got an architectural engineer to create buildings to a spec written by the marketing department, using whatever materials were cheap. As such they often don't have windows on multiple sides, which is essential for airflow.

      Some stuff is just straight up impossible to do here too. In theory you can get permission to install exterior shutters, but it's expensive and often the local council says no because i

  • ... and figure out technological remedies. Like scrubbing and sequestering CO2, and going nuclear.

    Or we could just emote and blame. But that doesn't seem terribly effective.

  • So much for GLOBAL warming. Last month the global average temperature was lower than in May, both on a 13 month MA and a month by month basis, according to satellite measurements.

  • Doom, doom, doom. Now give me money and power so I can save you...

  • Yet, like the boiling frog, people still do not understand.

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