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European heatwave June 2026 - BoxPressured - 07-01-2026
Peak Temperature records were broken in European countries, including:
- 45.1°C in Spain,
- 43.8°C in France,
- 41.7°C in Germany, and
- 41.9°C in the Czech Republic.
Excess mortality is linked to extreme heat stress, with France recording ~1,000 deaths and Spain over 327 deaths as of late June 2026.
As always, news articles or general reporting will nudge saying that "top-scientists" have concluded it's unequivocally caused by human-made climate change. The topic, however is highly regulated and often used as an excuse to reduce consumption. Those scientists are put there for a reason, and I'm certain they have to deal with politics when it comes to wording the reports.
It's used to be called "Global Warming" until people started to question why winters are colder as well. Then "Global Warming" got phased out by "Climate Change".
Due to political commitments it makes sense to sway data to desired side. What is never mentioned, is that climate has alway been changing. The planet was never a prestinely perfect environment.
While Europe is experiencing heatwaves, part of Russia that normally has 25-30C in summer, had snowfall in the middle of summertime (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ2S7Y3MF8d/). Although it can be argued that it's quiet harsh weather there, still, the weather cannot be expected to be 100% predictable.
Other variable that is not often mentioned is the activity of the sun. Every 11 years or so, it ramps up the flares like in recent days. Sunspots that can release the flares were present 98% of the time in 2026 so far (compared to 7 years ago - when they were present only 33% of the year). But it's normal behaviour for the sun as it flips it's poles (north becomes south and vice versa), releases solar flares and goes quiet until ramping up again. Check something like https://www.spaceweather.com/ to see how the sun changes on daily basis.
It's interesting to consider how our main source of warmth is behaving, which is often left out entirely to not go against the agenda. Can we not politicise our home star and use scientific data for understanding and educating rather than use it to direct flow of money?
In short, climate change will always be there, so are politicians to take advantage of climate events for their narratives.
As kids we've done that, when a teeny-tiny lie can be overseen just to get you out of trouble or get your own way. Unfortunantely tactics of a 5 year old are used to make everyday people believe things that are not quiet there, nor there's anyone that makes it interesting to consider more than one side of the story, because it's literally danger to their life to explore understanding there.
Also attached is an article from Dailymail that sniffs out a bit of manipulation, but "all scientists" that are never named dismiss the claims of data manipulation.
climate_data_manipulation(purged_from_Dailymail).pdf (Size: 255.45 KB / Downloads: 1)
Food for thought.