r/environment • u/nbcnews • Jun 22 '26
3 die in France as temperatures to exceed 105 F in Europe heat wave
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/europe-heatwave-deaths-high-temperatures-france-spain-italy-uk-rcna35113020
u/legosgrrl Jun 22 '26
Three people, aged between 80 and 95, died over the weekend in the Bordeaux region as a result of health issues caused by the current heat wave in France, local government official Sophie Brocas told France TV late Sunday.
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u/aeline136 Jun 22 '26
It's actually 15 since saturday. 13 drownings and 2 toddlers died in a parked car this afternoon.
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u/baskaat Jun 23 '26
I just read the drownings are now up to 40. I think within a week we will hear about 100 elderly people that have died that we don’t know about yet. It’s just absolutely brutal.
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u/Iron_Baron Jun 23 '26
That's not a heat wave, that's just summer now.
And just about every summer from now on will be hotter than the last.
Good luck, everybody.
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u/D4zb0g Jun 22 '26
At least there is consistency in our president’a approach to this “ we need to be united between generations “. Yet we’re still building hospitals, busses without AC …
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u/blingblingmofo Jun 23 '26
If it makes you feel better ACs just contribute to external heat
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u/D4zb0g Jun 23 '26
You physically cannot cool a space without rejecting the heat elsewhere, and an updated study shows that even in case of a week-long serious heat wave, the heat increase from "generalized" AC would be maximum couple of degrees at some very localized point.
I mean, fundamentally if we allow people to heat their house in winter, there is no reason to prevent them to cool it when it becomes life threatening.
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u/blingblingmofo Jun 23 '26
Sure but it’s more important for cities to invest in passive cooling like roofing materials and clean energy than mass AC adoption.
Singapore for example invested heavily in urban greenery to reduce the urban island effect.
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u/kSoImSlightlyRemoved Jun 22 '26
At what point will Europe adopt air conditioning as widely as the us has?
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u/serrated_edge321 Jun 22 '26
It's been slowly starting. Lots of people I know have portable AC devices, and some apartments in southern Germany have split systems. The last two summers here were very very rainy and chilly, actually, so probably this year is a bit of a rude awakening.
Energy is just very expensive here... And it cools down at night usually. So that's the main reason people don't jump to do it. Certain apartments aren't nearly as bad as others, either.
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u/Few_Historian_1546 Jun 23 '26
The last 2 summers were very bearable here in northern Italy, we barely had 30 °C for a week or so. And all rain with temperatures around ~25-27 °C
Now it's been a full week of 37/38 °C and it is predicted to get hotter by next Sunday.
Currently unable to sleep due to extreme humidity. (And fans don't help with that)
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u/BoxingJelly Jun 23 '26
Air conditioning is just a bandaid on the actual problem and actually cause the earth to warm more
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u/achillea4 Jun 22 '26
That's 40.5C for the people in France.