Temperature Records Broken as Extreme Heat Grips Parts of Europe (theguardian.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/13/1449205/temperature-records-broken-as-extreme-heat-grips-parts-of-europe
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/13/temperature-records-heatwave-europe-france-croatia-wildfires
> In south-west France, records were broken on Monday in Angouleme, Bergerac, Bordeaux, Saint-Emilion and Saint-Girons. Meteo France said the "often remarkable, even unprecedented, maximum temperatures" in the region were 12C above the norm for the last few decades.
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> In Croatia, air temperature records were set in Sibenik, at 39.5C, and Dubrovnik, at 38.9C, while large forest fires raged along its coasts and ripped through neighbouring countries in the Balkans. The day before, Hungary broke its daily maximum temperature record when a weather station in Korosladany hit 39.9C. The capital, Budapest, also broke its daily maximum record as it sweltered through 38.7C heat.
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> Beyond Europe, dozens of temperature records were broken across Canada, and record-breaking heat above 50C in Iraq was blamed for a nationwide blackout. The heatwave in southern Europe comes as Nordic countries recover from unprecedentedtemperatures above 30C in the Arctic Circle this month.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/13/temperature-records-heatwave-europe-france-croatia-wildfires
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I am very happy with my room cooler I purchased earlier this month I must say. I in fact perhaps will invest into a bigger unit next summer alongside it. It actually works.
Climate aside, I think there will just be a time when people will not go outside without some portable cooling system which I feel isn't hard at all to manufacture. It in fact seems like a market, surely it is possible with modern technology to create some kind of shirt fabric that can be stored in a refrigerator that is designed to afte
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> I am very happy with my room cooler I purchased earlier this month I must say. I in fact perhaps will invest into a bigger unit next summer alongside it. It actually works.
> Climate aside, I think there will just be a time when people will not go outside without some portable cooling system which I feel isn't hard at all to manufacture. It in fact seems like a market, surely it is possible with modern technology to create some kind of shirt fabric that can be stored in a refrigerator that is designed to afterwards slowly absorb heat?
I'm gonna do something unusual for me and glass is half full this one.
People used to pay big dollars for a sauna. Now we can just step outside. In my part of the world, it even smells smokey like the older wood-fire stoked saunas, since we're getting wildfire smoke washing over us most days. All the experience, none of the expense! I can just pull up a lawn chair on my porch and hang out to sweat off the pounds!
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Modern technology can't yet break the laws of thermodynamics , so no, it isn't possible.
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One in fact does not need to break any such laws to invent this and I feel you misunderstand how they work.
All they say is that one has to expend energy to first cool the fabric lower than ambient temperature, and that that heat has to go somewhere, but that can be pumped to the outside where it is insignificant. It says nothing about how quickly the fabric out of which the heat was extracted will naturally regain heat again. Some materials are simply not very heat conductive.
This already exists in non fabr
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I was in Japan the last two week, a small majority of people sported portable electric fans in one hand and/or a reflective parasol in the other. A modern take of the classic foldable fan combined with cloth and bamboo parasols used for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
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Your body produces 100W of heat just doing nothing on its own so the shirt would have to absord a large proportion of that. Then add in external heat sources too. Unless you can find some unobtainium to make your shirt fabric from that has a specific heat capacity thousands of times greater than water then no, its not going to happen. OTOH you could have a vest full of tubes with pumped water and they've existed for decades, astronauts use them.
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No, because if it absorbed all those 100W you'd die and enter hypothermia.
It doesn't need to absorb all that, it just needs to keep you comfortably cool.
Your body keeps itself cool as well of course and has ways to regulate temperature and sacrifices everything to keep your vital organs at the right temperature so that you not die, this does mean that your skin becomes far hotter which can take but it's not comfortable, all this shirt needs to do is keep your skin cool.
Space is entirely different because t
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It isn't just boomers. There are plenty of young people who have bought into the nihilistic philosophy that conservatism has morphed in to. Up here in Canada we are regularly informed that we have to build more pipelines and increase emissions because we need the money to pay for all the incredible things we're going to do later to fix and mitigate climate change.
It's incoherence bordering on rank stupidity and possibly severe mental illness, but even many of those who actually accept AGW have been convinced that we need to increase emissions in the "short term" because otherwise our economies will collapse. Meanwhile, my home town has two wild fires burning within 20 miles of it. The costs of mitigation are soon going to exceed whatever taxes and fees the taxpayer manages to collect from oil and gas companies.
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Yes, my personal cooling is not designed to keep the environment cool; it is designed to keep me cool.
As I said “climate aside". It does nothing for the climate; it does something for me.
Re: Obligatory (Score:2)
Swamp coolers function better as temperature increases.
However, they do less as humidity increases, and don't work at all when it is high, and have limited maximum cooling that means they will never bring temperatures down to comfortable on their own at high temps, plus they depend on a lot of airflow so it's difficult to make up the difference with air conditioning.
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Humans are a tropical species, built for a warm climate. It's only with our growing brains, and development of technology, that people lost their tolerance of heat.
Before our big brains developed air conditioning we had our big brains for developing other means to keep cool. As one example I can recall hearing, as an Army recruit, how soldiers kept cool while stationed in bases in warmer climates. It was quite simple, they got wet. They'd have a kind of shower set up and after everyone got geared up the
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What about the volcano that erupted a couple years back (2022), which was predicted to cause a few warmer years?
[1]https://eos.org/articles/tonga... [eos.org]
"The underwater eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai sent megatons of water vapor into the stratosphere, contributing to an increase in global warming over the next 5 years."
[1] https://eos.org/articles/tonga-eruption-may-temporarily-push-earth-closer-to-1-5c-of-warming
The law of unintended consequences (Score:3)
There's been a sudden increase in temp records being broken since the shipping fuel sulphur cap came into effect in 2020. Why does it matter? Because the particulates that used to be released by ships in the ocean caused clouds to form. This not only kept the oceans cooler but created weather stronger weather fronts with more rain. In effect it was masking some of climate changes effects.
Well, not any more.
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Then an underwater volcano erupted in 2022, raising temps for about 5 years by sending almost 150 megatons of water into the atmosphere. Which also has to come back down.
Some say (Score:2)
We can expect even hotter temperatures in Alaska soon
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or is it in Russia? Not sure, news keep changing
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Don't worry. Trump will do the most wonderful deal with Putin and exchange peace in Ukraine for restoring Alaska to its pre-1867 state. /s
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Come on, he's not giving away Alaska, they're just going to slice up Greenland and the rest of the Arctic. Then take a play out of Putin's book and get a little slice of Canadian bacon so he can drive home. (/s???)
It's been a nice summer but not hot enough (Score:1)
A hot summer heats up my swimming pool enough for some great pool time. This year we had maybe two hot weeks in July but the rest have been pretty mild. On the plus side the grass needs less watering and the house needs less air conditioning. On the minus side the pool heater has to run longer.
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Perhaps heating a pool of stillwater is not the most efficient use of energy in 2025.
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It's his money.
I'm conflicted (Score:2)
While I am sure things are getting warmer, I also notice that they keep doing weird things...
July was mostly between 12 and 22 degrees, lot's of rain. The moment it turned August, we're getting drought and forest fire hazard warnings.
Temperatures I used to think were green they make yellow and what used to be yellow often is red.
I do think humanity has impact on the weather and I do think it's changing.
But I am just as convinced someone is trying to shape opinion with less than ethical methods.
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Forgot to add: They tell us that this July was about average... for the life of me I just cannot believe that to be true.
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It's been unseasonably cool this summer here in Georgia (the American one). One normally hot week in July, then it dropped 20 degrees.
A volcano three years ago was going to cause temps to rise and 146,000,000 tonnes of rain to fall for a few years. That's supposed to wrap up around 2027.
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You understand your anecdotal claims are worthless. Or maybe you don't. The capacity for idiocy in humans seems to have no limit.
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> Forgot to add: They tell us that this July was about average... for the life of me I just cannot believe that to be true.
It could very well be true. Climate change does not affect every area equally. Some geographical areas will actually get better temperatures/climate than beforehand. San Diego (where I live) is a case in point. Our average temperature has actually stayed mostly the same. We've had lower than normal temperatures the last two months. However, our incidents of higher humidity has increased. From what I have read, our normal weather environment shifted northward.
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> The moment it turned August, we're getting drought and forest fire hazard warnings.
Holy shit! It only took 2 weeks to start a drought?!?!?!!! (I'm just being a dick)
The last five years here have been much cooler than usual. It just means things are much more unpredictable now. The forecast for Summer that they give us in Spring has been way off over those years. Next year could end up being crazy hot, we'll see.
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Many people don't realize climate change isn't just about hotter weather. Climate change means more energy in Earth's atmosphere. That does cause hot weather in places but also more water evaporation, more storm energy (tornadoes and cyclones), more precipitation, more melting ice in Greenland which is not compensated by the extra snowfall, which causes less salty water to form on the surface of the Nordic sea maybe one day weakening or blocking the Atlantic gulf-stream which could then drop median European
What do we do about it? (Score:1)
As more and more stories come about on global warming I wonder why there isn't more talk on what to do about it. It seems quite clear to me, we will need to replace fossil fuels with nuclear fission.
I should really find this video I saw on YouTube recently to share but I have doubts that if I do then nobody on Slashdot but the converted would bother to view it. It was a very well done video on the bullshit laws put in place to keep nuclear power down. The host of the video laid out how LNT, linear no thr
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Or we could wait a couple of years for the impact of the Tonga volcano to fade. Something that was expected to cause temps to rise for five years, but hasn't been mentioned in any of the alarmist reporting.
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> Or we could wait a couple of years for the impact of the Tonga volcano to fade. Something that was expected to cause temps to rise for five years, but hasn't been mentioned in any of the alarmist reporting.
Maybe because the situation is more complicated than initially thought, and [1]the net effect of the eruption appears to be a small cooling in the southern hemisphere [ucla.edu]?,
[1] https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/hunga-volcano-eruption-cooled-southern-hemisphere
but but but... (Score:2)
"It's all a librul hoax!!!"
I feel like drinking but.. (Score:2)
Its questionable how long we will have grapes for wine.
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At that point the grapes can be grown in new places! Drink on!
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At that point the grapes can be grown in new places! Drink on!
What was tundra can't be used to grow grapes.
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It takes a long time to grow a mature grape vine that produces good quality and quantity. Soil and other factors are also important. Wine may be the least of our agricultural concerns if the temperatures keep rising.
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Grape vines grow in the UK. The Romans introduced winemaking to Britain. My first house had a grape vine that produced grapes, but they never quite ripened. Perhaps as the climate warms, they will ripen.
Re: I feel like drinking but.. (Score:2)
Grape vines do grow in the UK. They were a source of shitty grapes that produced shitty wine that the Romans made drinkable with a lead-based sweetener...
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In the late middle ages, the area that's now the Netherlands (at least, the dry parts) was recognized for its wine. We are making a comeback ;)
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Is it though? [1]https://climatologie.meteocont... [meteocontact.fr]
[1] https://climatologie.meteocontact.fr/temperatures-observees/
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I highly doubt that we'll ever have no wine; though it might be more expensive and of lesser quality.