Climate Change: Europe’s Record Heat Wave Taxes Energy Infrastructure

The extreme heat wave gripping Europe is putting a strain on the continent’s energy infrastructure as power stations operate at low levels to keep temperatures in check. Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s David Hostert has the details on Bloomberg Television.
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[Slips]

And less than 5% of Europeans have AC. I can imagine the grid when eventually many more invest in air conditioning units and the power grid can’t handle the demand

[anglosaxonmike]

These factors—the cooling Pacific, the yet-to-cool Atlantic, and the
historical reduction in recent solar activity—suggest that a staggered
cooling period could continue. Absent from most headlines about global
warming is a discussion of measures suggesting that the warming has
ceased and a cooling may have begun. For example, deep-ocean heat
content has not increased during the past five years. Looking at just
one year, from January 2007 to January 2008, we find that
satellite-derived atmospheric temperatures indicate that Earth was about
one degree Fahrenheit cooler at the beginning of 2008 than it was at
the beginning of 2007. The United Kingdom’s Hadley Centre ocean and land
temperature records show cooling in the last seven to ten years.

[gliderarts]

51 triple digit dallas 1954 Days 2011

[pretentiousprogressive]

I thought we weren't supposed to point to weather to argue or support climate change...

[Luxembourgishsmartass]

Does this mean the British can drink tea from the tap now?

[jokerlou]

This seems pretty normal to me and everyone i know. I remembered the 90s were hotter than this lol

[johney]

lets revers climate change in our life time!!!
we are the human race we can do better than slowing the speed of climate change.. if we dump carbon in wet environments at convergent plate boundary's the carbon will not rot back to the atmosphere.. so if we dump our plastic and other carbon trash into the gulf of Carpentaria (Australia)the Caribbean sea or the Mediterranean sea, we could build land into the sea. if we grow and bulldoze a forest that collect carbon and dump it into the sea that carbon is GONE!!! if we regrow the forest and do it again, 2 forests are now under the sea.. the same land can dump more and more carbon and make land at the same time. we just have to dump more carbon than we emit and we can burn coal and make coal faster.

[rocknrobert]

The climate changed from spring to summer

[Garapetsa]

It's a normal summer here in Oklahoma.

[radearpurba]

I think everything will be shortage when we facing climate change problem. And probably, impact of the shortage is food's prices will increase (expensive) 🙏

[RobertMJohnson]

it will be 100F here for the next week...or actually next two months here in the Western US desert. oh wait! i have AC.

no worries. good luck, Europe. maybe one day you'll learn how Americans are better prepared than you all for these easy weather events.

[leggomyeigonosensei]

So who created this modern day, solar sh... hole world with record heat?? Ahhh I remember...every wyt rightwinger dude at the office who scoffed and chuckled at the whole premise of global warming over the past 30 years....yeah, and all those guys working the lathe and brake press in the machine shop listening to Rush Limbaugh on their radios with 'Don't tread on me' stickers on the sides of their Craftsman tool chests. So hey, you know the type....thank them. Any time a subzero temp day came along due to a polar vortex in winter....yeah those dudes would make sure to chime in with "where's this so-called global warming when you need it??....neoliberal alarmist snowflakes!"