Commentary: Surprise! Summer actually arrives in summer

Sébastien Lecornu is of course completely right: There is no inaction. None. After all, heat protection plans were activated, air conditioning units ordered and authorities mobilized — after the thermometer had long climbed to record levels. Who could still claim that no one had done anything? And anyway: Who could have guessed that it would be hot in the height of summer? This completely unexpected natural disaster hits France, after all, anew every year like a meteor from space. That climate scientists have been warning for decades about increasingly frequent ...