Europe’s Summer of Reckoning Is ‘Just the Beginning’

Searing heat waves. It will get worse and worse and worse to the point where, I’m afraid, we’ll be passing the limits of adaptation.” First, record-setting heat waves dried out soil and vegetation, which had become abundant after a wet winter. Friederike Otto, a German climatologist at Imperial College London, said “jet-stream” wind patterns and high-pressure systems once could lock in days of “nice-ish summer weather” in Europe. The post Europe’s Summer of Reckoning Is ‘Just the Beginning’ appeared first on New York Times.