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Europe Heatwaves Kill 35,000+ in Record Summer

Europe Heatwaves Kill 35,000+ in Record Summer

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Blaming deadly heatwaves entirely on human emissions ignores massive gaps in climate science — cloud cover, solar variability and natural cycles remain poorly understood and inadequately modeled. Global temperatures are actually cooler than Earth's long-term biological average, and the oceans regulate heat far more powerfully than atmospheric CO₂. Rushing to crisis conclusions without resolving these fundamental unknowns is bad science dressed up as settled fact.

Europe's summer heatwaves killed over 30,000 people, and that toll keeps rising as climate-fueled heat intensifies across the continent. Europe is warming at twice the global average rate, and the WHO estimates extreme heat claims 175,000 lives annually across the broader European region. Treating deadly heatwaves as a beach holiday story while refusing to divest from fossil fuels or expand access to cooling is a policy failure with a body count.


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