The heat is on | This Week In Business
James Batchelor
Editor-in-Chief
Friday 22nd July 2022
Things got very heated this week. Quite literally.
The heatwave that has swept parts of the world, particularly the UK and Europe, saw governments issuing warnings for people to stay home, avoid travelling unless necessary and generally escape the sun as much as possible.
STAT | 40.3C - Highest recorded temperature in the UK on Tuesday, a new record.
According to the BBC, this week was the first time temperature in the UK ever passed 40C, and it rose just as high in parts of Europe.
Nintendo and Valve both issued warnings about their handhelds if temperatures rise above 35C, with the Steam Deck programmed to "throttle performance" to protect itself and the Switch even designed to go into sleep mode to prevent damage to its components. Google suffered outages as data centres had to temporarily shut down after cooling systems failed.
This week, any argument that concerns over global warming are overblown melted faster than a half-finished 99 Flake in the hands of a distracted child (it's been a very emotional time in my household).
Like Link, the world is feeling the heat - and games companies need to help
Some have scoffed, saying that this is just a particularly hot summer, but even before the temperature really ramped up, experts were warning the heat predicted for this week was a "wake-up call for climate change."
QUOTE | "We are going to see these worsening hot summers but we can stop it getting really, really bad if we do something now. This cannot be reversed. We are locked into climate change and we need to work out what we are going to do about it" - University of Reading's Professor Hannah Cloke speaking to The Telegraph
That includes the video games industry.
It's easy
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