Banat, Romania, 41.2°C today and banana trees are making fruit. If this doesn’t scream climate change, I don’t know what does.

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by ZestycloseDivide4972

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  1. I live in the hills of Banat, western Romania. Today we hit 41.2°C, and yes, that’s a banana tree growing in someone’s backyard, fruiting without any special care. No greenhouse, no winter wrapping, no fertilizers. It just grows wild. Some fig trees in Timișoara are over 5–6 meters tall, thriving like we’re on the Mediterranean coast, also, without special care. Anyone else seeing stuff like this in their region?

  3. “When all the ice caps melted and the water rose, the banana plantations along the transylvanian coastline would prove a boon”

  4. This post reminds me of the way American senator James Inhofe tried to make a point about climate change.

  5. In Balkan it’s roasting up to 43 degrees Celsius and it’s been probably the worst summer of high temperatures in last 12 years.

  6. I like bananas though so if anything this only proves climate change is good

  10. The year is 2030 and Romanian just suffered a coup started by the Banat Banana Buyers (BBB for short).

  11. here in Banat people have an obsession with banana and fig trees and you see them on almost every backyard, even the yard of a communist block here has like 7 banana trees growing

  13. I’m planning on planting a olive plantation in a year or two, in south Serbia.

  14. At least I get to have fresh bananas from my neighboring country I guess?

  16. Hey, look at the good side of this, at least u get free bananas :))

  17. Meanwhile we have (for me personally) the best summer since I can even think. We got a few days above 30°C in june in austria, since that its basically every day 25°C or under, with a lot of rain lately. 25°C was a pretty standard summer 15 years ago or so, but thats def. not the norm anymore – currently its really pleasant.

  19. and where i live its 30c so my pale ass is utterly melting

  21. It used to get very cold when I was a kid. -15C wasn’t unusual a few times a winter, and -10 was relatively common. But not any longer. The last few winters it barely went below zero and when it did it sort of touched -5 at night one or two times but mostly just around 0, barely freezing. Winter 23/24 was completely crazy, we had green leaves on trees until end of December (I have photos) and I had a very large quantity of violets in full bloom throughout winter. I kept getting asked by neighbors about them because no one believed me that it’s just regular violets. This last winter wasn’t that warm but still waaaay above average.

  22. 15°C today in Germany. If only we could transport heat from one place to another, to achieve a much more pleasant average temperature lol

  23. In Austria/Burgenland we are starting with olive trees, have one im my garden the full year and some farmers around already have several plantations.

  25. Yay, we‘ll have a jungle in Europe soon. The humidity is matching too

  27. I’m going to Romania by the end of August and this scares me

  28. On the bright side, we can grow bananas locally now.

  29. My cousin has been growing passionfruits in his backyard lately. We’re in Central Portugal. 

    The Portuguese word for “passionfruit” comes from a Brazilian indigenous language, because that’s the only region passionfruits can grow, at least before this mess.

  30. I’m trying to figure out what to plant in Poland and I feel like all the guidance online is outdated/unreliable. My husband always wanted bougainvilleas and was resigned to never having them until we retire to some warm country, but I’m wondering if it might actually be realistic to have one if pot it and cover it in winter.

  33. Screaming bananas? Look, you can’t scream about climate change. It’s too alarming. Bananas need an ASMR voice when it’s about climate change. /s

  34. To be fair, that’s a Musa Basjoo.
    Their fruit grow fairly easily. I’ve seen fruiting in the U.K. before.

  37. The year is 2045, and Ireland had their best orange crop on record…

  38. If you look up climate predictions for Europe in the next century, we will be able to grow olivbe trees throughout the Balkan Mountains in about 50 years.

    I’m talking about places where it snows heavily and temps drop to below -20°C.

  39. I know climate change is very much a thing but my grandma always had banana plants and they always made like 1cm banana looking thingys. Here in northern Italy, this morning it was 15c, no bananas this year!

  40. “Hungarian Orange” used to be a joke. A product that you can theoretically make, but would be prohibitively expensive and complicated.

    At this rate it will soon be a new agriculture sector.

  43. Don’t worry, the people who were pushing climate change denialism have upgraded their game and grabbed the power instead of trying to influence the discourse. When democracy itself is at stake the fight for the climate takes a back seat.

  44. Wait!, you mean bananas dont grow normally in romania?!…/s

  45. While south Germany is like: “+16 is max what you get”

  47. We have several avocado trees, this year we had to start covering them because it was too hot and they were dying. In central Italy. Wild

  48. Very few are bothered by melting glaciers. I doubt many will be disturbed by Romania becoming a major banana export nation in a couple of decades.

  49. If I know Eastern Europe well, European banana will be MORE expensive that is imported from 8000 kms

  50. Im in Galicia and I have seen canary island palm trees sprouting in the wild.

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