The European Environment Agency says the average temperature on the continent in the last decade was already 1.3 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level.
But there is something that Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and the rest of the Bundesliga does have: the most competitive field of play (arguably) among Europe's top leagues, an absurdly rich program to develop the next generation of stars and the highest-average attendance on the continent.
The continent's major indexes were down an average 1.5% in Thursday morning trading, dragged down by financials as worries about hedge fund exposure to America's subprime mortgage market resurfaced.