Our winter this year in Southern California was the hottest in recorded history.
And the coldest winter going forward.
Pretty sure the warnings were back in at least the 70s
A city hotter than parts of the Sahara becomes a headline for a day, then disappears under sport, politics and celebrity gossip.
It really feels like this so much! There were quite some sad climate news this year already, but except the heatwave in Europe, they all got buried by Hormuz strait news, like:
- collapse of AMOC now likely
- collapse of Thwaites now likely
accelerationrate of warming almost doubled in the past decade to about 0.3 °C/decade
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Make sure you don’t care about anything long enough to cause a real change!
hotter than the sahara normally, or hotter than the sahara right now?
the media focus is on europe, but other regions of the world are experiencing heat waves too and north africa seems to be particularly affected as well, which i see almost no one talk about…
I don’t thing France is normally hotter than Sahara.
i meant it in the sense of “is france right now hotter than what the sahara typically is, or hotter than the sahara is at this moment?”
my point being that the sahara is also going through a heat wave
sorry for the confusion there 😅
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260509210639.htm
…the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is losing strength.
This is probably affecting this European summer more than anticipated.
not really much normal people can do. voted green on the basis of them pushing work from home (30% carbon reduction) but once in office they dropped that idea, implemented “turbo migration” and forced homeowners (mainly famillies who took loans) to take out more loans to install solar while reducing paid parental leave. basically worst backstab me and my family have ever seen.
even if france as a whole turned 0 emissions, that wouldnt change anything if everyone else is doing business as usual.
implemented “turbo migration”
The heck does this mean?
now contrast this with what China is doing and it becomes clear that different outcomes are possible
Last time i checked china was mostly reliant on coal ? They shifted the energy production to something else ? Genuine question, if they took impactfull measures i’d be hapy to hear about it
China bootstrapped using fossil fuels because that was the only technology available, but they’ve been transitioning away from using fossil fuels at a mind boggling rate. China still uses fossil fuels, but I think it’s fair to call it an electrostate at this point.
- China’s carbon emissions have been in a structural decline since 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carbon-emissions-set-for-structural-decline-from-next-year
- Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023 https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-was-top-driver-of-chinas-economic-growth-in-2023/
- China installed more solar in 2025 than rest of the world combined https://electrek.co/2025/09/02/h1-2025-china-installs-more-solar-than-rest-of-the-world-combined/
- China’s solar capacity surges; predicted to top 1 TW by 2026 https://www.rystadenergy.com/news/china-s-solar-capacity-surges-expected-to-top-1-tw-by-2026
- China is also building out nuclear at a breakneck pace https://www.economist.com/china/2023/11/30/china-is-building-nuclear-reactors-faster-than-any-other-country
- New energy vehicles account for 77.6% of China’s public transport system https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2403089981/
Yeah if everyone followed their example we’d be on our way to a green future
Thanks to war on Iran, a lot of countries might not have a choice now.
The US is mostly reliant on China, and china’s manufacturing is slowly decreasing coal consumption, while rapidly increasing solar, wind and hydro.
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Okay well believing China does things better than the west doesn’t make you a tankie. I also believe there are many things China does better than the west but I guess that’s all subjective.
wow that’s an amazing ad hominem you got there dronie, no actual substantive counter points though sadly, do yourself a favor and get off the internet
I mean there is anything positive to say about USA/Europe?
Absolutely there is: they’re finally dying
