40 drowned in france that were escaping the heat too.
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including two children left in a hot car
I mean that’s just the parents fault. They would be dead even with regular heat.
And boomers wonder why Gen Z and millennials aren't having kids.
My parents are understanding very well while reading on the one hand comments from Gen Z - like you - and alike that it is all the boomer’s fault and on the other hand asking themselves how they will pay that month the health bills and other costs from their little pension .
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41.2c -> 106.16F
The cost to the global economy of dealing with fossil fuel dependency is going to be huge. So instead we are going to boooow down and worship at the Moloch of the Capitalism with annual human sacrifices. India is ahead of the game with 40k levels of human sacrifice (about 3500 per day!), so the other countries need to step up their game, because only 18 people in France, those are rookie numbers.
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I'm waiting for all the "it's supposed to be hot in the summer" comments.
Damn the society of Greed is killing us all.
How long do y'all think it will take yanks to start talking about how in X part of the US it's much hotter and us "pansy Europeans" should just "learn to deal with it"?
I knew a girl from texas, we sometimes played video games together. She kept telling me that it's not even that hot, it's way hotter in texas. I asked her how they even deal with that heat, because it's 10 degrees cooler here and i almost die until i reach the forrest when i go outside. She was like: tsss, we don't go outside, we are at home with the AC running, AC in the car and go to the AC mall. Oh, so you deal with tye problem by not dealimg with it.
And when Texans experience a proper winter they all freeze to death in their rinky dink stick and paper homes.
and by increasing the problem
Too hot outside, better sit inside and run a machine that moves heat from inside to outside while also producing waste heat as well!
So fun fact I moved to New England from Texas (Denton) and let me tell u the HOT HUMID shitty parts of August imo felt worse in new england than the 100° dry heat in Texas! Yes sometimes in Texas it got muggy too then it was hell and u parked ur ass inside but I was surprised with the humid heat in the northeast! France is seeing 105-106 f heat now, which if dry as Arizona isn't too bad here and there but if their acompanied by any humidity too your sweat cannot cool u off and u just fucking fry!
Nobody can understand ur weird units, u are on the Internet, where the majority uses Celsius.
Skipping the insults, these kind of heat stroke deaths are undeniably a policy failure. Building codes must be updated to match the new reality. Public cooling centers must be mandated. Learn from our experience and success.
As a Californian yank who has spent a combined 2 years living in East Sussex, England and León, Spain; let me just say this:
There's dumbasses, highly ignorant chads and plenty of wankers on both sides of the pond who will readily make stupid comments.
Any comments about the US being hotter than the EU really comes down to a lack of basic knowledge that most Europeans don't have Air Conditioning and are therefore unprepared to deal with prolonged heatwaves.
Sure, we Californians for example endure entire months of continuous 33'C weather, but we're prepared for it here. We expect to have two seasons here: Summer and Spring for fucks sake.
Europeans however don't expect that and the only criticism you all are entitled to here is that this isn't going to go away. All you Europeans need to be pushing for infrastructure now instead of fucking talking and talking and talking some more about it.
It’s also the buildings.
I live in Sweden. My flat was built in the 60s, and it’s made to retain heat. It was part of the million programme and is incredibly sturdy. I half joke it’d survive a nuclear bomb, but it very well might. There’s even a shelter.
Past few days we’ve had temps going up to around 27. That’s not too bad if you’re outside. In my flat however the temps easily rise to 32, and has even hit 35. Opening a window helps a little, but the entire building heats up and retains this heat.
While it gets cooler outside during the night, the building is still radiating heat, and it doesn’t fully dissipate come morning. I have a portable AC, and while it works well, the moment you turn it off the heat that remains in the walls, ceiling, and floor quickly radiates out and completely nullifies the efforts of the AC.
Many places in the U.S. has the complete opposite problem. Like this example.
It’s not about people being wimps, it’s about the climate changing in fairly chaotic and extreme ways, and our adaptations to protect against the weather simply not keeping up.
That sounds like a nightmare. I live in Australia and used to work in a 2nd floor office with very weak vented AC. In summer afternoons the sun would beat down on the one exterior wall, and it would heat up like a radiator. On hot days the wall and window glass became too hot to touch from the inside. You could feel the radiated heat when you walked in the room, like walking past a pizza oven.
Modem building codes require some sort of weird looking air-gapped cladding on the sunward side of buildings, steel, aluminium or concrete panels suspended 100mm away from the wall on pegs, and gridded awnings over windows so that the sunlight isn't beating directly against the wall, otherwise the buildings are basically unsurvivable.
Technology Connections did a video on awnings and how much they were useful before AC, and how they've fallen out of fashion despite being needed more than ever
Same goes for Northernrs making fun of the south shutting down due to snow.
It just doesn't make sense to maintain a fleet of salt trucks for the one day every 3 years it ices badly.
I'm in Italy and we get it all, snowstorms, heatwaves, dry, humid, whatever. We lack a desert, but we do have lots of very dry areas.
People foreignsplaining how to deal with any of these never fail to exasperate me.
Yep. It's all about infrastructure and change.
I do wonder if they'll get everything hooked up to AC right as the AMOC collapses and send the UK and europe into a mini-ice-age.
Well where i live we have year round 36 so check mate
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But seriously that's our miserable weather
how long did it take you until you made this about America?
don't you "europeons" always complain that there's too many posts about America? the one time a post is entirely about Europe, and you somehow find a way to make it about America.
They may actually ignore this one, as they do not understand what 41C is and at the same time are too lazy to check.
If they could read they would be very upset >:(
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They're too busy responding to all the Europeans' comments on US housing construction materials at the moment.
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Up to 40 now :(
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