The data in EuroMoMo is quite stable now: The heatwave in calendar week 26 resulted in more than 15,000 excess deaths across Europe. That was worse than the flu wave this January.
Also, interesting that it was primarily France and Belgium. Then Germany.
For Portugal it was a rather normal week, it seems.
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kyub@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 24d
Fun fact: in Germany, there was no mention about any of those deaths from the CDU government, not even a short, generic statement. But they were really fast with supporting companies when the economy was affected due to low water in the rivers (also because of heat).
Lives being lost due to global warming will just be a number in a statistic. To really get capitalist countries to do something against the warming, you need to always frame your arguments in a way that it will help the businesses. Otherwise they won't care.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 24d
Gotta keep the gasoline flowing. What's a few deaths if it means that Volkswagen can keep building the same shit nobody wants?
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org · 3 pts · 24d
That must be the deadliest natural disaster in recent history if you do not count covid as a natural disaster?
copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 24d
There is a Wikipedia list, which also contains the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes with ~60,000 deaths. Heatwaves in Europe are a recurring item on that list though and this one is still ongoing.
oakward@feddit.org · 2 pts · 22d
Could Portugal have been fine because there was no heat wave during that week?
Sauce: https://wmo.int/media/news/western-europe-has-hottest-june-record
Quantillion@mstdn.io · -5 pts · 25d
@copacetic
All I see is a mostly white page with some scattered text, graphs with no legends, a map with no cues, a very large EU flag & a photo of windmills.
copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 24d
You mean the euromomo.eu page? Looks like this to me:
lokalhorst@feddit.org · 1 pts · 24d
I cannot confirm this, viewing the post via Lemmy
Quantillion@mstdn.io · 1 pts · 24d
@lokalhorst
(Shrunk to 50%, Firefox/Waterfox)
lokalhorst@feddit.org · 1 pts · 24d
If you visit the website via the browser it looks right. I guess it has either to do with Mastodon not correctly ingesting images in the body or the viewer you are using.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 24d
Both post and webpage seem normal to me, no large eu flag no photo of windmills. I'm on Android using Lemmy via Voyager app and Vivaldi.