About 10% were nuked, at the bottom of the slope. (View Post)

No, it’s a product of industrial pollution. Equating it to development is like equating smog to development. We’re better than that. Climate change is a problem primarily of industrial and domestic w… (View Post)

It was certainly hot. It had freakishly settled conditions for the whole summer. The UK was the most anomalously warm place in the northern Hemisphere that summer. Only 1995 has seen something simila… (View Post)

Let’s do Paris 1976 vs some recent summers: Year Average Summer Temp (°C) Rank 1976 21.0°C Not top 5 2003 23.0°C #1 2018 22.1°C #3 2022 22.7°C #2 2023 22.5°C #4 2006 21.2°C #6 The 2020s average is ~2… (View Post)

1976 and 2003 weren’t even close. 2003 was the hottest summer in Europe since records began, by a huge margin (it’s since been overtaken). 1976 was hot and dry in Paris but nothing particularly unusu… (View Post)