Good morning, here are your #BadNewsOfTheDay:
1. "7 people have died in France in an extreme early-summer heat event that is affecting a swathe of western Europe, as France & the UK set record highs for May and temperatures were forecast to rise further."
#HeatKills. Watch out for yourselves.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/26/deaths-france-linked-record-high-temperatures
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2. "We're going through a period of very rapid warming, particularly western Europe, so if the same weather events we had in, say, the 1970s happened again, it will not only be slightly warmer, but it will simply smash the record."
Smashed heat records as #TheNewNormal definitely sounds fun.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62rrj66p3eo
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3. And who's at risk from excessive heat?
"Older people make up the bulk of heat-related deaths. Women are more likely to die from heat-related causes than men. Poorer people – who are less likely to have air conditioning – are also at greater risk."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/27/the-silent-killer-what-you-need-to-know-about-heatwaves
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4. This one's kinda fun:
"The climate crisis is accelerating a global increase in antibiotic resistance that poses a serious threat to human health, experts have said as figures show a rise in salmonella antibiotic resistant genes."
Yeay: more antibiotics resistance, can't wait.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/26/climate-crisis-accelerating-antibiotic-resistance-across-world-salmonella-study
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5. "‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’
Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the last one in West Papua has lost almost all its ice."
Planetary destruction on fast-forward sounds right...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/27/witnessing-the-disappearance-of-indonesia-eternity-glaciers
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6. Slightly different kind of bad news, but bad news still:
"China is overhauling the world’s largest surveillance network with advanced AI, giving the state more powers to track people, analyse behaviour and predict potential unrest in real time."😬
https://www.ft.com/content/f8fa4739-4359-4720-af77-9be1e8370f82?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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7. #TheComingFossilistInsurrection:
"Growing signs of a UK consumer slowdown are adding to pressure on Sir Keir Starmer’s government, as rising energy costs threaten a recovery in real wages."
https://www.ft.com/content/ed7da24c-2ea8-4dec-9c98-541fcc2bba0e?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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