Irish Examiner view: Another message for us to heed 

the Gulf Stream and its beneficial effects on Ireland and the rest of Northern Europe could effectively collapse as soon as 2025

A burnt tree on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece.  A third successive heat wave has struck Greece with many parts of the country reaching as high as 46.4C. Picture: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Generations of Irish people were educated about the importance of the Gulf Stream to the climate wellbeing of our island and its temperate weather patterns.

In simple terms, we learned that, were it not for the Gulf Stream, our buoyant agriculture and bountiful land would probably not be either buoyant or bountiful, and that geographic features unique to Ireland would not exist either.