Climate Threat Extreme Weather in Europe

Anger at EU Offices – Having to Turn Off the AC in the Heat

Bureaucrats at the European Commission are fuming after being forced to turn off their air conditioning in the extreme heat. This is what several sources tell Politico.

– Shameful, one of them tells the news site.

Another calls it a “feudal system” that the call that went out on Friday only applied to floors one to seven of the Commission’s headquarters in Brussels. From floor eight and up, the highest officials, commissioners and President Ursula von der Leyen sit.

Heat records have been broken in several European countries in recent days. Over 40 degrees have been measured in five locations in Europe, according to AFP. 

Scientists: Climate change behind the heat wave – at the limit of what we can handle

The extreme heat in Europe would not have been possible if it were not for climate change. This is what a group of researchers from the World Weather Attribution organization has concluded in a new report that several media outlets are writing about.

The weather is not unusual in itself, but temperatures that high would have been impossible fifty years ago, when the planet was 1.1 degrees cooler.

The ongoing heat wave has been described as the most severe ever, and new heat records have been set only to be immediately surpassed. In France, the United Kingdom and Spain, among others, the healthcare system has been pushed to the breaking point.

“This summer shows that here, at 1.4 degrees of global warming, extreme heat has already reached the upper limit of what our societies can handle,” the researchers write.

The Pride parade in Paris is canceled - it's too hot

The Pride parade in Paris is postponed due to the ongoing heat wave, writes France 24.

- We are thinking of holding it in September, but the whole team needs to have a meeting to see how we can come back, says Anouk Veyret, president of Inter-hbtq.

French police have previously asked the organizers to cancel Saturday's plans, writes AFP.

According to the police, the measures taken by the organizers had not been sufficient and the implementation risked overloading the already hard-pressed healthcare system.

According to QX, 300,000 people participated in the Pride parade in Paris in 2025.