French Bakeries and Climate Change

The climate news is… bad. Very bad. As in: it looks like summer months in some heavily populated places are quickly approaching medically unsurvivable levels. Another Sort of French Bakery I love French bakeries. Whether boulangeries or pâtisseries, there is a delicious experience in the offing, as well as pleasant exchange with the proprietors and a cultural lesson. However, today’s post on this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads (CLBTNR) is about a French bakery of an altogether different sort: Europe in the grips of climate change. This plot made the rounds on social media a couple days ago. It shows the temperature on 2026-Jun-21, the summer solstice, expressed as a deviation from average. A heat dome (a high-pressure region that is confining a mass of hot air, both by pressure and convective means) is burning western Europe. That’s… really bad. However, this chart has a number of problems: I couldn’t find any citation for it, and an image search just pointed back at the poster.…