Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves

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• I just came back from Hungary and Slovakia and it really caught my attention that the grass everywhere was just yellow. I wasn't sure if it's normal by this time of the year, but truely, both countries look like Greece now.

  snicky 46m ago

• It's very disheartening as someone who enjoys recreational fishing that the river closures -- typically legally closed to fishing, but otherwise ethically closed -- are getting earlier and earlier. That is, if the rivers aren't straight up bone dry peak summer.

  I'm pretty young, too, so I have this, if not worse than this, to look forward to for the majority of my life.

  Not to mention here in BC we're up to three summers in a row where entire towns have burned down ... not a positive sign of things to come.

  tills13 20m ago

• I remember in 2010, corporate propagandists were telling us that the effects of climate change won't be felt for a 100 years.

  geremiiah 1h ago

• Climate change affects geographies unequally. Seems like Europe and the tropics have been the first to suffer, year after year, and with the UK losing that warm current in ~47 years, can't help but wonder what is on European minds.

  bethekind 1h ago

• The headline is a bit sensationalist. Scorched means burned not just dry, later it mentions that some of the images are scorched from wildfires, but that doesn't seem to correlate to the one shown under the headline.

  dwedge 1h ago

• > But climate change, mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels, has been raising average temperatures for decades and making hot spells much more likely and intense.

  Global fire emissions are on a downward trend, with the first half of this year at a record low in this century.

  https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/lowest-global-biomass-burni...

  delichon 1h ago