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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hotter than the sahara normally, or hotter than the sahara right now?

the media focus is on europe, but other regions of the world are experiencing heat waves too and north africa seems to be particularly affected as well, which i see almost no one talk about…

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t thing France is normally hotter than Sahara.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i meant it in the sense of "is france right now hotter than what the sahara typically is, or hotter than the sahara is at this moment?"

my point being that the sahara is also going through a heat wave

sorry for the confusion there 😅

[–] btsax@reddthat.com 20 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure the warnings were back in at least the 70s

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A city hotter than parts of the Sahara becomes a headline for a day, then disappears under sport, politics and celebrity gossip.

It really feels like this so much! There were quite some sad climate news this year already, but except the heatwave in Europe, they all got buried by Hormuz strait news, like:

  • collapse of AMOC now likely
  • collapse of Thwaites now likely
  • ~~acceleration~~ rate of warming almost doubled in the past decade to about 0.3 °C/decade

edited a mistake

[–] pleiades@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Make sure you don't care about anything long enough to cause a real change!

[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260509210639.htm

..the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is losing strength.

This is probably affecting this European summer more than anticipated.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Our winter this year in Southern California was the hottest in recorded history.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

And the coldest winter going forward.