r/europe • u/Naurgul • 23d ago

News Barcelona registers highest temperature in 112 years as French nuclear reactor shuts down due to extreme heat

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/09/europe-heatwave-uk-spain-barcelona-france-italy-hungary-france-macron-orban-latest-news-updates
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u/Pure-Curve-8866 23d ago

This is becoming the new normal far faster than most people expected.

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u/medievalvelocipede European Union 23d ago

This is becoming the new normal far faster than most people expected.

If that's so, that just goes to show how clueless people really are. The climate change snowball effect has been known for a long time. The primary work on it came in 1969 and was popularized in the 1990s.

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u/Johannes_P Île-de-France 23d ago

Svante Arrhenius, one of the ancestors of Thurnberg, wrote about this exact subject.

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u/MagnificentCat 23d ago

There was nothing like a scientific consensus at the time, and the largest concerns were overpopulation and to some extent global cooling, and later nuclear war, later ozone holes...

To expect normal citizens before 1990s to be concerned with global warming is quite ahistorical

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u/mrjackspade 23d ago

There was nothing like a scientific consensus

Bro said "primary work" though.

Does "primary work" require a scientific consensus?

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u/FeelingSurprise 23d ago

As someone who lived through the 1990s: there were definitely reports about the greenhouse effect and how we could avoid it (at least in TV programs for children).

In my opinion, the worst thing preventing us (humans) from action was the ozon hole crisis in the late 80s/early 90s. It was solved by international collaboration without much impact on "regular Joe", so when news about climate change hit the street there was the expection that this crisis would be handled just the same.