{"id":3426,"date":"2026-06-23T04:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:41:02","slug":"big-oil-companies-have-blood-on-their-hands-in-european-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"Big Oil Companies Have Blood on Their Hands in European Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Heat records are again being smashed across Europe as the region is engulfed in another historic heat wave this week. France, Spain, and the United Kingdom face the most severe threat\u2014Monday is on track to be France\u2019s hottest day on record. The heat is affecting millions, as schools are closed, outdoor recreation and festivities are limited, and fatalities are already starting to add up. A recent attribution analysis found that Europe\u2019s record-breaking heat this year \u201chas the fingerprints of climate change all over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> In response, <strong>Aaron Regunberg, director of Public Citizen\u2019s Climate Accountability Project<\/strong>, issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAcross Europe, millions are suffering from heat that would have been practically unimaginable a generation ago. This isn\u2019t a natural disaster. The fossil fuel industry\u2019s pollution and decades of deception about the impact of burning fossil fuels has spurred this extreme heat, which has already killed multiple people. Decades ago, scientists at Exxon were discussing with other oil companies research connecting climate change with \u2018suffering and death due to thermal extremes.\u2019 These companies knew of evidence that their conduct would cause these harms, and orchestrated campaigns of climate denial to undermine that evidence. They should be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat records are again being smashed across Europe as the region is engulfed in another historic heat wave this week. France, Spain, and the United Kingdom face the most severe threat\u2014Monday is on track to be France\u2019s hottest day on record. The heat is affecting millions, as schools are closed, outdoor recreation and festivities are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}