Mastodawn

"The system has 120kms (75-miles) of underground pipes distributing chilled water to museums, offices, hospitals, schools and other public buildings including the Louvre, the Grand Palais, and some luxury hotels and office districts. Instead of thousands of individual air-conditioning units, cooling is produced centrally and shared across the city like a utility"

#Paris #France #Heat #DistrictCool8ng

JuneSim63 💚18m ago

"..cold river water from the Seine is pumped through one pipe, which runs right next to a secondary pipe carrying warm water from the city’s buildings. A thin metal wall separates them and a heat exchanger allows the heat from the warm city water to enter the cold Seine water without the fluids ever touching"

#Paris #Heat #ClimateEmergency #DistrictCooling

‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con | Extreme heat | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/underground-revolution-seine-cooling-network-paris-buildings-heat

‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con

City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units

The Guardian

Δρομογράφος 1h ago

Extreme #heat wave in #France kills hundreds of thousands of #poultry

https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/extreme-heat-wave-in-france-kills-hundreds-of-thousands-of-poultry/

Record temperatures have been causing mass poultry deaths in western France since June 22, Reuters reported. The heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit), is also behind the drowning of 40 people. Météo-France, the French national weather service, wrote in a statement that June 24 and 25 were the hottest days recorded in France since records began in 1947.

Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry

Conservation news

lobster 3h ago

Dear Friends of #cool times,

- I am #sneezing. Just dust not hey fever, more like turning on the computer and other #tech with its #passive charging heaters and such like
- turn of tech at night. It adds #heat ya don't need
- yep going down is cool. Time for me to go downstairs.

MiaWake 3h ago

gerade der kälteste Moment des Tages - schnell alle Fenster auf und die Stunde bis zum Sonnenaufgang in vollen Zügen genießen! Danach am besten bis Sonnenuntergang schlafen #heat

maxelcat 6h ago

It's so hot. The #heat is getting me down. Please make it #rain #londonsburning

Richie Rocket 6h ago

Yes it's hot in Europe, unusually hot. But unexpectedly hot? That's a no. I studied environmental science back in the 1990s and scientists then were predicting that Europe would regularly have heatwaves in the 35-40C range by the 2020s.

We didn't stop driving petrol cars, install aircon in public buildings or stop flying away for glamorous holidays - myself included. And yet we complain. Now I help to build windfarms, built of steel and plastics that all use fossil fuels, to harness something free and turn it into electricity. It feels like baby steps whilst the house burns around me

I'm flying to Madrid on Monday, then Mallorca, then back to Glasgow via Heathrow, all powered by kerosine. At least I'm taking a bus to the airport

#GlobalWarming #EndFossilFuelsNow #science #heat #heatwave #heatwave2026 #HumansCausedThis #travel #airtravel #guilt #ClimateChange #ClimateReality #offshorewind

Dragofix 6h ago

White roofs and urban parks reduce heat in cities, but do not offset extreme global warming https://phys.org/news/2026-06-white-roofs-urban-cities-offset.html

#city #cities #environment #weather #temperature #heat #heatwave #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

White roofs and urban parks reduce heat in cities, but do not offset extreme global warming

The implementation of reflective white roofs and new urban parks can significantly reduce temperatures in cities and decrease population vulnerability to heat waves, although these measures are not sufficient to counteract the projected increase of more than 6°C (11°F) by 2100, according to a recent study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Spain.

Phys.org