Climate
Global warning
23 July 2010
Presseurop
Gazeta Wyborcza 
Gazeta Wyborcza, 23 July 2010
"Historical heat wave," leads Gazeta Wyborcza, presenting a map of the places in the world where temperatures have risen most. In June, the average land and sea temperatures reached 16.2 degrees Celsius, up 0.68 degrees on the 1971-2000 average. "The late spring and early summer this year was the hottest since 1880," stresses the daily, citing data from the latest National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research (NOAA Research) report. "It depends on us only whether the current geological era, known as Anthropocene, where humans have been changing the environment on a huge scale, proves short-lived or brings about a major climatic change that will last for millennia," warn US climate scientists.
Since Portugal has been subjected to an austerity regimen by the EU/ECB/IMF troika, Portuguese consumers have adapted their habits. The crisis is pushing consumers to save but also to be more creative. 
The European Commission and its civil servants gained unprecedented powers with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty on February 7 1992. Two decades later, the economy’s primacy over politics and the advent of the crisis has destroyed their dreams and turned them into scapegoats. 
“Hitler”, “Occupying Power" – it’s always the same. Berlin is asserting its stance on the euro crisis and, in turn, is being abused with comparisons to the Nazis. Die Zeit ponders how Germans should respond.