World's hottest day since records began

So you're mad at the greek weather forecasters for forecasting 40c temperatures....

I'm not sure if I believe that they were forecasting specific 40c+ temperatures for Crete, and I'm also not sure what you consider to be 'mid 30s, is that 34c or 36c, and I also would rather accept the Greek met agency's description of the normal Crete climate of max temperatures of about 29-30c in July, versus your own anecdotal evidence of going to crete lots of times in recent years where sometimes the temperatures go above 30c

So I decided to check

https://www.worldweatheronline.com/crete-weather-averages/crete/gr.aspx

You're either mistaken, you're just lying

The weather in Southern Europe this year is absolutely NOT normal

Its the Dunning Kruger effect.

People that think they know enough about the science to be able to completely disregard all of the evidence, thereby revealing that they know way less than they think they do, and should just shut up and stop making themselves look like idiots

Climate change deniers are one step away from flat earthers except at least flat earth conspiracy theorists are harmless

Decimomannu in Sardinia is 45C right now which is 13C higher than their usual July Max of 31.6C.

Brief "cool down" to 37C maxes Thursday and Friday and then back to 40's again...

Hottest i ever experienced was 38C before and that was unbearable for more than a few minutes outside for me, 7C hotter again is just unimaginable to me.

Keeps on going..

Sure just get frozen broccoli?

Would you not grow your own?

We sure as hell have to stop it, because what we're seeing now is 1.5c of warming. If we let fossil fuel companies extract all their reserves we're looking at 3-5c of warming before the end of the century.

Humans can stop human caused emissions. We have the technology to produce energy without carbon emissions. It's a political decision, and people like you with attitudes like yours are just playing into the hands of the sociopaths who would rather enrich themselves than allow a decent future for ourselves and the next generation

Let's try these ideas first, and if they don't work, we can doom ourselves to the inevitable collapse of civilization we'll see by following the instructions of the oil and gas lobbiests

Your last paragraph as a point is just painful. Yes rainfall has increased in the latest release of 30 year averages that doesn’t mean there still can’t be droughts. No where did Met Eireann say they’ll never be periods of dry weather ever again so I’m not sure what point you thought you were making but it makes zero sense nor does it prove anything. This is what they’re up against, people imagining stuff and not being able to grasp basic information.

Indeed, but people are not prepared to make the sacrifice required - they wont even give up their pets

Genius. Or, maybe we start with the low hanging fruit and focus first on the people who consume way more than their fair share, Tax the rich and produce our energy using renewables, prohibit the most wasteful luxuries like private airplanes, cruise liners, increase carbon taxes starting with the wealthiest first, introduce property taxes for 2nd + homes, higher taxes on huge wasteful houses to cover their environmental footprint

Stop the production and import of single use plastics, and enforce higher standards on consumer goods to prevent all the middle Aisle crap and 2 euro shop tat that fills up our landfills....

Force producers to take back their products and recycle them (properly) if they break after an unreasonably short length of time...

Do all this, and more, and then we can think about ripping newborn babies from their mothers arms and taking puppies and goldfish off children

sef

Malaga airport had an amazingly warm night with a low of 31° at midnight local time (times above are UTC). What's even more impressive is that by 02:00, it had risen to 35°, the change in wind direction from the hot land being very much at play there. I'm wondering if this was a record high temperature for that time of night?

I got cabbage in Tesco yesterday. Pretty sure I saw it in Dunnes the other day too. Didnt seem to be any shortage of it. Perhaps they should try a different shop :)