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Summer heatwaves like 2003 are expected to become much more frequent toward the end of the century

In the current ie of the scientific journal Science, U.S. researchers publish a study according to which in the future increasingly intense and frequent periods of heat are to be expected both in Europe and in North America.

Geral’s A. Meehl and Claudia Tebaldi of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder examined climate data collected since 1961 to model future heat waves. They see clear signs of global climate change and note that, if greenhouse gas emissions remain constant in the 21st century, there will be no global warming. It is clear that in the twenty-first century there will be more intense and prolonged episodes of floatation in the regions of Europe and North America that were not accustomed to such heat shocks in the past.

Durresommer 2018; Bild: Andreas Schwarzkopf/ CC BY-SA 4.0

Commentary: How weather speculations become obsolete and play into the hands of the climate change deniers

"Threat of a new summer of drought?" At least the Tagesschau had put a question mark here. The Bild newspaper spared itself this and announced ominously: "Summer 2019 – Germany faces a new heat record". Many other media outlets had published similar articles in late April, quickly making the connection between climate change and the threat of drought in 2019.

After a week, the uproar over the actor’s #allesdichtmachen action has died down, the public debate is changing. A media commentary

The latest reactions to the actor action #allesdichtmachen show: quick emporia are followed by understanding and growing approval. More and more filmmakers in particular are showing solidarity with the actors, who are often attacked in an extremely rude manner on social networks, and are defending, if not the action itself, then the freedom of expression and integrity of those involved, including Jan Josef Liefers, Meret Becker, Wotan Wilke Mohring, Heike Makatsch, Ulrich Tukur, Ulrike Folkerts and Hanns Zischler.

Especially two reactions of the last days stand out: One was a commentary by the highly influential German producer Nico Hofmann in the Bild newspaper: "Absolutely indisputable", according to Hofmann, be "Broadcasting Council, who are now calling for occupational bans or death threats (…) a hate orgy (…) I think this is completely out of line and I also oppose it." to attack discourse participants in this way, "does not work at all. And certainly not in the democratic composite system".