RECORDE DEL MONDO DI GRETCHEN WALSH NEI 50 STILE LIBERO IN 23.55, RECORD ITALIANO DI SARA CURTIS 24.09 E RIENTRO MOSTRUOSO DI SARAH SJOSTROEM 23.86 IL MIGLIOR SETTECOLLI DI SEMPRE 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average. Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling.
Driven by climate change and global warming, the phenomenon of the “once-in-a-generation” heatwave is now occurring nearly annual. We were warned.
More than 1300 excess deaths have been recorded since 21 June linked to high temperatures in Europe.
Heat stress is often called the “silent killer” – and European homes, workplaces and schools were not built for these temperatures.
@WHO is working with its Member States and partners to address the health threats posed by extreme heat through focusing on preparedness, prevention and stronger health system responses.
In particular, we are encouraging European countries to implement heat health action plans, as part of the broader agenda to protect health against climate change.
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Eccezionale ondata di calore in Europa, tra ieri e oggi sono stati battuti i record di di temperatura più alta da inizio rilevazioni in ben quattro Paesi:
🇨🇿 Cechia — 41,1°C a Doksany
🇩🇰 Danimarca — 37°C a Ødum
🇩🇪 Germania — 41,7°C a Coschen
🇵🇱 Polonia — 40,3°C a Toruń
🇮🇹67th Sette Colli Trophy
Women's 100m Freestyle Final
Marrit Steenbergen 51.68 🌏WR!!
🇳🇱Marrit Steenbergen breaks 🇸🇪Sarah Sjöström’s 9-year-old world record 🔥🔥🔥🔥
24.98 - 26.70
The girl who was called a “prodigy” at 15 has finally achieved a remarkable feat!🥹🥹👏👏🎉🎉
So here's a story about the Düsseldorf University Hospital where heart patients are sweltering in 38°/100.4° temperatures right now because this 15-year-old building lacks central A/C.
I taught at the law faculty of this university for 15 years. When the law faculty built a new expansion in 2005, I asked whether it would be air-conditioned. They said: "No, because then every building on campus would ask for it". I thought to myself, "Well, that's Europe for you. Crabs in a bucket."
Then the university announced plans for this new building, the one you see in the picture, which would be the main university hospital. That was in 2013 or thereabouts. Shortly thereafter, they published the plans and sketches online. No A/C infrastructure visible.
At some sort of faculty function, I asked the dean or assistant dean of the medical faculty whether they were going to install central air-conditioning on this building. "It's no problem if lawyers are brain-fuddled because of the heat -- in fact it might be a bonus! -- but surgeons? Patients?"
The dean answered: "Well, we asked, but the construction board and city officials said no, because if this new building gets air-conditioning, then all the older buildings on the university campus will demand it."
"Even though this is a fucking hospital?" I asked with typical American coarseness.
"Yes, even though it's a hospital," responded the dean, staring with chagrin into his beer.
And so now dozens of people recovering from open-heart surgery are bathing in their own sweat. Across the country, thousands of people are dying in un-air-conditioned hospitals right now.
As in all former heatwaves, there will be institutional pressure at all levels to attribute their deaths to underlying ailments, not the fact that they sweltered for over a week in brutal temperatures.
🚨 China just became first country in history to surpass 4 TW of installed electricity capacity.
• 4.01 TW total capacity
• 62% non-fossil
• 61% renewable
• 1.5% nuclear
• 32% coal (down > 61% in 2010)
China's electricity system now 1.7× larger than the US and EU combined.
A Paris resident is sleeping under wet towels to survive a record-breaking European heatwave that has claimed dozens of lives, as experts warn European homes were designed to retain heat, not repel it https://t.co/3Bf15WbaOP
@dontealberto@LeonardoPanetta@Eugenio85428611 Se per quello ho provato parecchie MB e Audi da 70K con plastiche interne durissime e assemblaggi che scricchiolavano in maniera assurda e vergognosa.
@CronacheTweet Domanda: perché nessuno si scandalizza degli stipendi dei giocatori NBA rispetto ai giocatori di basket in Europa? Lo vogliamo capire che la Premier League è la NBA del calcio? Per loro queste cifre sono la normalità...
The Wolves do still have other moves in the works. They need a power forward and they need more shooting. I am told that they are not trading Donte DiVincenzo. The work continues.
BREAKING: The Charlotte Hornets are trading star guard LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 unprotected first-round pick, three first-round pick swaps (2028, 2029, 2030) and three second-round picks (2029, 2032, 2033), sources tell ESPN.