Met Éireann issues thunderstorm warnings for 16 counties as temperatures remain high

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Europe is particularly affected because it is the fastest-warming continent, according to the European Union's Copernicus climate change monitoring service, warming at more than twice the global average.
56% : Disappearing Arctic ice contributing to heatwave - Thorne The heatwave that has consumed much of western Europe has pushed temperatures well above 35 degrees for more than 100 million people and triggered weather warnings in more than 20 countries.
49% : With ice caps "melting rapidly", the reflective surface of the northernmost part of the planet is disappearing, he said, and being replaced with land and sea that absorbs radiation more easily.
35% : The UN has said the heatwave is due to climate change and there is worse to come *

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