With temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) this week, much of Europe is in a heat-induced stupor.
France received the worst of it, recording its highest-ever temperature on Tuesday, leaving thousands of homes without electricity. More than 55 people have drownedas residents have jumped in the water to try to cool down.
Extreme weather typically brings a storm of disinformation with it; this heatwave is no different.
The message "must connect to something people are directly affected by," Anna Siewiorek, Head of Climate Disinformation Resilience at the Climate&Strategy Foundation, told DW.
"We feel the heatwaves, we feel the storms or floods — and we're emotionally affected by it because we have economic fear, we fear about our loved ones, for the infrastructure we built and so on."
