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Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves
- geremiiah 2mo agoI remember in 2010, corporate propagandists were telling us that the effects of climate change won't be felt for a 100 years.
- andai 2mo agohttps://xkcd.com/2889/ https://xkcd.com/2889/
- netsharc 2mo agoThere's an outdated statement: 50% of the fossil fuel civilization has burned, we burned after 1992. Outdated, so that percentage is probably a lot higher now.
- bamboozled 2mo agoFamine is going to be a really, really bad way to die.
- surgical_fire 2mo agoDon't worry. The last to starve will be the first to suffocate.
- bamboozled 2mo agoThe only alway to avoid would be to listen to scientists …and the masses really don’t like doing that apparently. Feelings get hurt.
- Jensson 2mo agoCO2 and global warming makes the world more arable, not less. So famine wont be an issue, some parts of the world might be but not Europe.
- ulnarkressty 2mo agoMore available land won't protect from crop failure due to temperature, droughts etc.
- GeoAtreides 2mo agoCan you provide a credible source for your incredible claim?
- Flere-Imsaho 2mo agoThe world is greener now than in the 1980s according to NASA: https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/global-green-up-slows-warming-146296/ https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/global-gree... Now does that translate to better crops? I don't know, but humans will do whatever it takes to adapt, so we really need to stop with the climate scaremongering.
- bethekind 2mo agoClimate change affects geographies unequally. Seems like Europe and the tropics have been the first to suffer, year after year, and with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years, can't help but wonder what is on European minds.
- andai 2mo ago>with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years What's that going to look like?
- bestouff 2mo agoVery hot in summer, very cold in winter.
- afavour 2mo agoPeople might be ice skating on the Thames again.
- AngryData 2mo agoSignificantly colder in the winter. Im not sure how much it would change summer temps though, it could just affect the amount of rain.
- kuerbel 2mo agoBest article I know about this topic is: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explainer/index.html https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explainer/index.htm...
- pvaldes 2mo ago>with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years >> What's that going to look like? There is a very graphic way to understand the problem. Some cities in Canada are Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec, Winnipeg or Regina. London and Berlin are closer to the North Pole that any of these ----------------------- Minimum temperature registered in London -17 Celsius. In Quebec and Montreal: -36 and -37.8 Celsius. Berlin is a little closer than London to the North Pole but also more continental, so more like Regina in that sense. Berlin lowest temperature registered is -15 Celsius, and in Regina: -40 Celsius ... And Edinburgh is closer to the North pole than any of these, and a little Northern than Manitoba, where reaching -40 Celsius a few nights is expected each year, and more than 30 Celsius in the summer is normal.
- delichon 2mo agoGlobal fire emissions are on a downward trend, with the first half of this year at a record low in this century. https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/lowest-global-biomass-burning-emissions-record-during-first-half-2026 https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/lowest-global-biomass-burni...
- Daishiman 2mo agoDue to less land clearing in other continents. Did you read the report?
- OlivOnTech 2mo agoWe've had the hottest summer ever recorded (since the beginning of 20th century, more than 120 years ago) across Europe. There is no "downward trend), it's going up, and will be for a while. "Drill baby drill"
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- throwawayqqq11 2mo agoYea, time to cut that funding for wild fire studies and observations! /s
- sajithdilshan 2mo agoWtf is even a wildfire study? And sure just pour more millions into it because there’s no better way to burn taxpayers money
- dwedge 2mo agoThe headline is a bit sensationalist. Scorched means burned not just dry, later it mentions that some of the images are scorched from wildfires, but that doesn't seem to correlate to the one shown under the headline.
- CornishPasty 2mo agoAccording to the Cambridge dictionary it's a perfectly normal usage of the word, in fact it's pretty much the example for it... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scorched https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scorched
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- undersuit 2mo agoScorched is being used correctly. Fire does not have to be involved, heat does.
- margalabargala 2mo agoThe post is the BBC, scorched is the ordinary word used in British english. I agree that in American english it would be more ambiguous.
- sajithdilshan 2mo agoI mean what do you expect, it's BBC. I'll eat my hat the day they actually report the facts as it is without exaggeration. I wouldn't even trust BBC without verifying the sources. Most of the time it's lying at best and propaganda at worst.
- AngryData 2mo agoIn my part of the midwest scortched is correct. People say their lawn is scorched by the sun during droughts.
- deadbunny 2mo agoClaiming the British state broadcaster is using the English language incorrectly is certainly a choice. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scorched https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scorched
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- snicky 2mo agoI just came back from Hungary and Slovakia and it really caught my attention that the grass everywhere was just yellow. I wasn't sure if it's normal by this time of the year, but truely, both countries look like Greece now.
- jacquesm 2mo agoSame here in NL. A few drops of rain today, for the first time in a long time.
- s_dev 2mo agoSame in Ireland. I think the country grass is fields or near woodlands or rivers is still holding on to its green but urban grass in parks is scorched. I've never seen this before. Ireland is fundamentally a wet country and always has been.
- disgruntledphd2 2mo agoThis also happened in 2018, but yeah it's crazy.
- fakedang 2mo agoSame in Switzerland. Trees have started yellowing a month before autumn.
- xnx 2mo agoIn Spain I drove past fields of sunflowers that were all wilted. Formerly grass fields are totally yellow and crunch underfoot.
- vinc 2mo agoSame in Northwest France: I've never seen the grass so yellow, and now the ground is even becoming bare brown. Some tree species are yellowing/browning. With the prolonged lack of rain and extreme heat for the region, it's a summer like I've never seen before. And it's probably one of the coolest of the rest of my life.
- tills13 2mo agoIt's very disheartening as someone who enjoys recreational fishing that the river closures -- typically legally closed to fishing, but otherwise ethically closed -- are getting earlier and earlier. That is, if the rivers aren't straight up bone dry peak summer. I'm pretty young, too, so I have this, if not worse than this, to look forward to for the majority of my life. Not to mention here in BC we're up to three summers in a row where entire towns have burned down ... not a positive sign of things to come.
- TacticalCoder 2mo agoSo in Western Europe we're fucked by first having heatwaves (and fires everywhere) and, indeed, every field around me is yellow instead of green... And then, when the AMOC shall start running amok, we'll be forever in extreme cold. Where should I flee?
- netsharc 2mo agoWhat, like an economic migrant?
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- delegate 2mo agoMy only practical contribution to fixing this issue is to upvote this article.. and write a message on HN. I'm in Spain. I really hope that after this summer, people of Europe will wake up and make fixing the climate their highest priority - at home, at work, in politics. We have very little time left, maybe a few years. I can still see news articles everywhere blaming 'climate change' and 'CO2 emissions', pointing the finger at the oil companies and the likes. But those 'bad' guys are not operating in a void - they supply the products which are in high demand from me and you and our families - our entire lifestyle is built around them. So what needs to change is our life styles, philosophy, economic order .. drastic changes. Consumerism needs to go, tourism needs to go, advertising needs to go, travel and logistics needs to be reinvented, industrial production needs to drop by orders of magnitude, everything replaced with healthy and efficient alternatives. How can this be done peacefully is beyond me, it probably can't. We've had precedent during covid, when the whole world stopped because everyone was scared that they're going to die. It's not so different now.
- zzgo 2mo ago> How can this be done peacefully is beyond me What you're proposing (ending consumerism, tourism) is nothing short of revolutionary. I don't imagine that the future is going to be bloodless with or without a revolution.
- adrithmetiqa 2mo agoI’m convinced one of the best ways is to make the right choices financially easier, and make the wrong ones (much) more expensive. Fully subsidise trains and tax the crap out of flying. Do the same for cars running on fossil fuels Tax carbon heavy foods like meat. Repeat until this starts changing consumer behaviour
- atom058 2mo agoI agree that this is a reasonable place to start. Unfortunately, I don't think that politicians will be able to implement reforms like this without severe backlash from the public. So the ones that do might just get voted out in the next election. But it's what we need to do at a minimum.
- Andr2Andr 2mo agoSide by side images of exactly the same places one year apart would have been much better than the images in the article - combining left and right part from 2 years. Maybe it's just me, but the satellite images mostly were hard to read
- brugidou 2mo agoThere's a slider in the middle you can use to see before/after
- Andr2Andr 2mo agoOh! Then it makes sense! Missed that
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- layer8 2mo agoThey are the same place, you’re supposed to compare using the slider. What bothers me more is that the left and right images seem to have a different color temperature.
- comrade1234 2mo agoI think the cows are very stressed here in Switzerland. I make cheese every now and then - ricotta and paneer. It's simple. I buy the milk from a "milch-Automat" - farms around here (Zurich) have machines where you can buy a liter of raw milk from the farm for cheap. So, the milk I'm using is direct from the cows. I made paneer a week ago. Normally I can cut it up and brown it and make the edges crispy. But for this batch I got far less cheese than normal and it was wet - I had to let the molded paneer dry out longer than normal. Then when I went to brown it the entire batch just melted into a gloopy mess - that just doesn't happen. Reminded me of the omen.
- vismit2000 2mo agoI had to look this up: In European and Alpine agrarian traditions, sudden, inexplicable failures in dairy processing - such as milk refusing to curdle, butter failing to churn, or cheese spoiling unexpectedly - were historically interpreted as serious bad omens. They were seen as portents of impending drought, blighted pastures, severe livestock distress, or famine.
- GoToRO 2mo agogood thing is not climate change, that would be really bad...
- Markoff 2mo agono offense with their narrative, but the picture - Shipwreck has become visible due to Danube’s low water levels - actually shows MORE GREEN than year ago if you don't focus on the river, look at alla reas around, everything is greener, such a fail BBC btw. I don't deny many areas are dryer and more yellow than last year, but when looking at satellite pictures you should also take into consideration WHEN was the harvest, logically if harvest is earlier due to hotter weather the whole country will look very different from space and it doesn't say much about whether country is dry (though this is of course unrelated to some French palace photo which obviously ain't farm field)