Is this the summer that pushes Europe to adapt to extreme heat? | DW News
From cracked highways to record-breaking temperatures, Europe is feeling the impact of an extraordinary heatwave. But is this more than just another hot summer? Could it become the moment that pushes Europe to prepare for extreme heat?
DW News spoke with Professor Mojib Latif of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, one of Germany’s leading climate scientists, who has studied global warming and extreme weather for decades. We also asked DW political correspondent Jenni Graham about how German authorities are responding to the heat.
Chapters:
00:00 WHO reports over 1,300 excess deaths
00:20 Germany breaks heat record for third straight day
00:40 Denmark records highest temperature ever
01:30 Elderly most at risk in Europe
02:00 Heat damages infrastructure in Germany
02:25 Professor Mojib Latif: Unusually early heat
03:52 What’s driving the heat — El Nino or global warming?
06:21 How can Europe adapt?
09:07 Are climate targets slipping out of reach?
11:32 DW’s Jenni Graham: Heat exposes social inequality
14:05 Climate policy vs economic priorities
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25 Comments
Temperatures are increasing at faster rates than even the worst IPCC scenarios. Noone expected the 3y average to be 1.5c by the end of 2025. Let's look at the 4y average after 2026, the 4y average after 2027, etc.
AC solves all of these problems.
No
Plant more trees!!! Wake up, plant more trees!!!
Ya'll are too busy shooting your economies in the foot with energy costs and your ill thought out "green energy" push to be able to do AC… You would need to contain your cult of fools and start expanding energy that provides reasonable prices before you can even consider this whole concept…
I told this so many times in more of my comments that 5 years from now a dry weeds and piece of paper will be burn in heat sunlight I think is happening too early 😢
Is this the summer that pushes Europe to ditch deadly fossil fuels? Since there's no 'adapting' to what's coming if we continue using oil and gas?
Germany is notoriously slow & backwards in so many ways, that even the AC was forced to close down on 26.06 at the EU Commission HQ for lack of proper functioning. But the top floors 1-7 where Von der Leyen has her office were kept running 😏
air conditioning people, it can’t be circumvented unless you want people to be sick, unproductive and drop dead.
I agree Europe does need to lower its CO2 emissions, but China has increased theirs by about 1,000,000,000 tons over the last four years. All of Europes total is less than 3,000,000,000 tons per year. We should all be protesting in front of the Chinese embassy if we really want change.
Seeing as how Europeans talk about air-conditioning the way way Americans debate gun control: no. You have a simple solution to the heat: AC. AC in everything. But for a variety of reasons, you've made it politically unfeasible. And the people who really dig in their heels on this aren't really offering good alternatives. Meanwhile, vulnerable populations are going to die.
STOP SAYING "DRINK WATER". PEOPLE NEED ELOCTROLITES! NOT JUST WATER.
Thankfully the elderly are the ones suffering the most, good for them.
Germany isn't built for 42 degrees in the shade and a humidity of 80%. Neither are any of the other European countries. As I could experience on the weekend by myself. I was expecting that at least places like shopping malls with air conditioning would be open on a Sunday. But it was the churches and the universities that invited people to stay indoors on their cooled properties instead. On Saturday, while hiding out in an air-conditioned shopping mall and supermarket, I was talking to a lady who was visiting her mother living in a newly built elderly care home. And she told me that they had like 35 to 40 degrees inside the building and rooms as the building, which just finished about a year ago, was built without air conditioning inside. Judging by that and based on my own experience during national service as a nurse in Germany, I wouldn't be surprised if the actual excess death ratio in Germany was as high as in France, if not even higher due to the larger population. Apparently, in Paris, there were approximately 1,300 heat-related deaths, and the morgues were suddenly facing a 3x higher demand for storage, with some asking for cooling containers to store bodies.
Pls check in on your elders
He never said anything about solutions, how exactly we can cool down the places, cities, streets etc….
It seemed like a great idea to deliberately ruin our habitat for short term gain
Socialism means collective misery. Why else would A/C be a foreign convenience/ necessity in 2026?
The lunacy. Risk your health and life to reduce CO2 while China keep making record CO2.
We should stop the cause of the heat, not make it with air conditioning
The EU tyrants in Brussels have air conditioning as long as not a low level serf employee on the first 7 floors in the HQ where the a/c is turned off,
Meanwhile in Alberta, we've been getting nothing but rain non-stop where basements in homes have been flooding. Nothing is blooming in the gardens as its been too cold and rainy. Can't go outside due to all the mosquitos. The weather indeed is changing for the worse.
Say it with me, people: "2003 was 23 years ago."
Winters season currently in the Meghalaya India 🇮🇳world wettest place on earth.
Europe using windmills and solar panels to generate power instead using natural gas to generate power.They are also against off shore drilling to get natural fuels that is so sad 😂😂