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What Next TBD: Europe Is Burning

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The continent's deadly heat wave is only the tip of the melting iceberg. Guest: Henry Grabar Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When I got Slates Henry Garbar on the line on Wednesday, he sounded extremely relieved.

0:39.7

I am in Paris, and it is a very seasonal and reasonable 75 degrees.

0:46.8

Just a few days ago, Henry was in the middle of Europe's devastating heat wave.

0:51.2

He was in Normandy and the French countryside, staying in his great-grandfather's

0:55.4

house. Monday and Tuesday were the hottest days. It was well above 100 degrees on both of those days.

1:03.7

And it was so hot that you felt like you could not be outside for more than 20 or 30 minutes without starting to feel

1:14.7

very unpleasant. And I'm talking outside in the shade. Going into the sun, he says, was just

1:22.8

intolerable. And all around him, it felt like the countryside was roasting.

1:28.6

There was this kind of smell, like all the sort of like the scent of the grass and the trees and the crops and the fields.

1:36.7

It all seemed to be some like more pronounced somehow as if like everything was like slowly cooking at some level.

1:45.9

Like there was some kind of molecular reaction that was happening.

1:48.1

When he did venture out of the house into the village, it was empty and surreal.

1:53.6

It was like being in an apocalypse movie.

1:56.4

So on the last day, on Tuesday, when it was 105 degrees, we were riding our bikes back from my great-grandfather's

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