The data in EuroMoMo is quite stable now: The heatwave in calendar week 26 resulted in more than 15,000 excess deaths across Europe. That was worse than the flu wave this January.

Also, interesting that it was primarily France and Belgium. Then Germany.

For Portugal it was a rather normal week, it seems.

  • kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Fun fact: in Germany, there was no mention about any of those deaths from the CDU government, not even a short, generic statement. But they were really fast with supporting companies when the economy was affected due to low water in the rivers (also because of heat).

    Lives being lost due to global warming will just be a number in a statistic. To really get capitalist countries to do something against the warming, you need to always frame your arguments in a way that it will help the businesses. Otherwise they won’t care.

    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Gotta keep the gasoline flowing. What’s a few deaths if it means that Volkswagen can keep building the same shit nobody wants?

  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    That must be the deadliest natural disaster in recent history if you do not count covid as a natural disaster?

    • copacetic@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      There is a Wikipedia list, which also contains the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes with ~60,000 deaths. Heatwaves in Europe are a recurring item on that list though and this one is still ongoing.

  • KevinOnEarth@mstdn.io
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    5 days ago

    @copacetic
    All I see is a mostly white page with some scattered text, graphs with no legends, a map with no cues, a very large EU flag & a photo of windmills.