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European Heatwave Continues to Set New Records

European Heatwave Continues to Set New Records

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Europe’s current heatwave has set record temperatures in Spain, France and the UK, with the scorching conditions now moving into Germany and Poland. The extreme heat has caused widespread power outages, road damage, and a rising death toll, underscoring the tangible impacts of the climate crisis across the continent.

Simon Stiell
United Nations
1. It's the latest price to pay for fossil fuel pollution baking our planet. Until humanity stops burning colossal amounts of coal, oil and gas, extreme heat will keep getting worse.
MétéoSuisse
1. Temperatures exceeded 37°C for the first time in Switzerland during the month of June, breaking a record set in 1947.
British Home Office
1. We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously, and our teams are responding to mitigate the impact of recent high temperatures on Immigration Removal Centres. Robust measures are in place to support residents, including access to bottled water, summer clothing, sun cream and fully stocked first-aid kits.
Liz Bentley
Royal Meteorological Society
1. They hang around a lot longer than they used to do.
2. Climate change is definitely having an impact on the fact that they're more frequent, they're more intense, and they're more persistent as well.
3. And as you shift that range of temperature, you're making the extreme temperatures much more likely.
4. We are going to see the June temperature records not just broken, but completely annihilated.
Martin Herrmann
German Climate and Health Alliance
1. Although public awareness of the dangers of heat has clearly increased, Germany is still poorly prepared, or not prepared at all, for a heat-related disaster.
Samantha Burgess
Copernicus Climate Change Service
1. While heat domes are a natural weather phenomenon, anthropogenic climate change is making heatwaves more severe and more likely to reach record-breaking temperatures.
Mireia Ginesta
Climate Litigation Lab
1. So the pressure increases and the temperature also increases.
2. High-pressure system means that the air is sinking, and as the air goes down to lower altitudes, it becomes compressed.
Jennifer Francis
Woodwell Climate Research Center
1. If you don't give your body a chance to cool off at night, it just starts to accumulate in your body and that can really start to affect your health. And so figuring out a way to stay cooler at night is very, very important.
2. One of the biggest problems is the nighttime heat.
3. We're warming the globe and that means we're shifting the range of temperatures that any given place experiences.
4. It's really just in the last decade or two where these sorts of really brutal heat waves have been happening and killing a lot of people because they don't have the means to stay cool.
5. In Europe, they're just not used to this.
6. The heat wave is what we feel at the surface.
7. The heat dome is really what the jet stream is doing.

European Heatwave Continues to Set New Records

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