Europe’s Growing Heat Waves: Air Conditioning for All?
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The extreme heat that is suffocating these days Spain is also growing with much of Europe, with the difference that in some latitudes further north are much less used to the high temperatures and do not have air conditioning. While in localities of France the thermometers have reached 41 degrees, in Turkey the heat spurs the forest fires, which have forced to evacuate more than 50,000 people. Continue reading


Europe heat wave intensifies as temperature records broken
As Europe bakes in the summer heat, parts of Italy and France are on red alert, with Spain and Portugal seeing record temperatures. Schools and tourist attractions have closed, and conditions have turned deadly.
Europe’s growing heat waves: Air conditioning for all?
Ah, the politics of keeping cool. First day of July and already France and parts of Europe are enduring their second major heatwave with no respite: from the shores of the Mediterranean warmed by waters at an alarming 26 degrees Celsius to the rooftop of Europe, Mont Blanc where the mercury’s got no business venturing above freezing this early in the summer… how to adapt to the new normal?
A heat wave from Spain and France has now also reached Germany. In several European countries, the highest temperatures in June were measured.
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