40 in greece in summer doesn't seem that extraordinary... Don't want to downplay the news, but i don't think it makes a lot of sense to call "extreme heat record" something that's half a degree above what we're used to ( i mean sure, it's probably a record, but calling it "an effect of climate warming" sounds a bit too much)
It doesn’t seem to say if it is average temperature.
Cyprus and Greece have hit 46 and 48 C respectively before, so this reads a bit sensationalist or dishonest maybe? Just pointing at the average temperature increasing would have sufficed.
Not downplaying 40 degrees at all, I grew up in the Mediterranean and am well familiar with the summers and it wasn’t news that we hit 40. The news used to be about 43 … and so on.
>It doesn’t seem to say if it is average temperature.
The article: "Seeing temperatures", which implies 'max'
40C is high but not uncommon for Greece, 33C in Sofia is far from the highest temps recorded in mid July. The global warming is bad as it gets, yet reporting like that doesn't help the cause.
They are not. The article and title are for pointing specifically Greece.
Greece and the rest of Mediterranean have seen such temperatures before. There is no record to break because we have already exceeded it that much more.
The emphasis should be on averages and overall variance increasing and not on specific samples.
Yeah. One hot day is business as normal. I know that we all want to show examples of extreme weather "on the ground" to quell the retards who say climate change is a hoax, but this isn't it. Even if there had never been humans on Earth, this region would still have 40+C days. The evidence is in year over year averages, not in singular measurements (for now).
