From: here@is.invalid   
      
   'No One is Safe': How The Heatwave Has Battered the Wealthy World   
      
   Some of Europe's richest countries lay in disarray this weekend, as   
   raging rivers burst through their banks in Germany and Belgium,   
   submerging towns, slamming parked cars against trees and leaving   
   Europeans shellshocked at the intensity of the destruction.   
      
   Only days before in the Northwestern United States, a region famed for   
   its cool, foggy weather, hundreds had died of heat. In Canada,   
   wildfire had burned a village off the map. Moscow reeled from record   
   temperatures. And this weekend the northern Rocky Mountains were   
   bracing for yet another heat wave, as wildfires spread across 12   
   states in the American West.   
      
   The extreme weather disasters across Europe and North America have   
   driven home two essential facts of science and history: The world as a   
   whole is neither prepared to slow down climate change, nor live with   
   it. The week's events have now ravaged some of the world's wealthiest   
   nations, whose affluence has been enabled by more than a century of   
   burning coal, oil and gas -- activities that pumped the greenhouse   
   gases into the atmosphere that are warming the world.   
      
      
      
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