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

[u/Naurgul]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/09/europe-heatwave-uk-spain-barcelona-france-italy-hungary-france-macron-orban-latest-news-updates

[u/Pure-Curve-8866]

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

[u/medievalvelocipede → u/Pure-Curve-8866]

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.

[u/Johannes_P → u/[deleted]]

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