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Europe needs to prepare for temperatures of 50C in future

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Sevilla. Last week in TV. Measuring soil temperature in a modern sterile clean park made with lots of granite and a few street flowerpots with small plants here and there, nobody at sight. Designed by machines for machines. Soil temperature: 55 Celsius.

Near old fashioned park with trees, fallen leaves and dirt, people sit under a big sycamore, maybe 80 years old or more. Soil temperature 21 Celsius.

Is as easy as that. You will have what you sow.

Yep, near Malaga too. Fine in the montes, while insane where there are no trees. And the Montes were planted to stop the floods from the mountains after every tree was cut to fuel steamboats, so why not replant trees everywhere if we can see it clearly works? I know the answer while dipping my head with a luckily wet towel in Alentejo 43C.

That works really well in parts of Spain and around the Mediterranean where dry seasons exist and coincide with higher temperatures. “It’s a dry heat” is a real thing, and you can even put together things like swamp coolers that save the day if there isn’t enough shade.

Britain gets humid though. France gets humid, Germany gets humid etc

Hottest place I’ve ever been was a jungle.

Whoever wrote that article is clearly an idiot: even Sahara or Death Valley don't experience temperatures of 50C, except in some rare cicrumstances.

Yeah, Europe never would experience the same climate as that tropical place called Canada...

Item two entries down from this one:

Sicily hits 48.8°C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe

(I know there's some question about that reading, but the previous record is 48°)

The hype about this is really funny.

"Climate change is making heat-related extremes of weather more intense and when we think about those record-breaking temperature the chance of breaking temperature records – or coming close to breaking records – is greatly increased."

Thanks Einstein!

Let's say hypothetically weather works a 100 year cycle, and that the mean global temperature rises 0.1 degrees per decade.....

Guess what! Every single temperature record gets reset multiple times per 100 years, but at the end of the day the temperature is only 1 degree hotter even though I have had to endure 10,000 articles claiming global warming and weather disasters and records etc.

It's really a quite vapid but easy headline clickbait that we aren't getting away from anytime soon.

> but at the end of the day the temperature is only 1 degree hotter

On average, across the whole planet, yes.

In specific regions, this is absolutely false. There are non-linear effects in the climate system that result in some areas warming much faster (e.g. the arctic).

Frankly, if any analysis is vapid, it's this one.

Right, so I'll have to endure 30,000 articles because some regions are heated up more and some regions are cooling down, so even more temperature records will be set.

Which only makes the relevance of the headlines even less

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