Climate change threatens people with food and water shortages, floods, extreme heat, additional diseases, and economic losses. Migration and conflict can be the result. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls climate change a major threat to global health.
The hottest European days on record
Europeans endured the hottest summer on record last year, with wildfires, floods and huge heat waves hitting the continent, according to a report by EU scientists released on Friday. recorded temperatures 48.8C – a temporary record for the whole of Europe. Rising temperatures are exacerbating the effects of environmental degradation, natural disasters, extreme weather, food and water shortages, economic instability, conflict, and terrorism. Sea levels are rising, the Arctic is melting, coral reefs are dying, the sea is becoming acidic, and forests are burning, leading to climate change.
A severe typhoon in the Mediterranean has helped ignite a volcanic eruption that burns more than 800,000 hectares in countries including Greece, Turkey, and Italy. Meanwhile, record rains caused catastrophic floods throughout Belgium and western Germany that killed more than 200 people. The report, published annually by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), draws on satellite observations, local measurements, and computer models to provide continental climate updates. “We are facing many challenges,” said Mauro Facchini, Head of the Copernicus Unit in the EU.
He said the 2021 temperatures and extreme weather described the urgent need for countries to cut off greenhouse gases to avoid further global warming, which could result in devastating weather conditions. Worldwide, the last seven years have been the warmest in history. Last year, it was slightly cooler compared to recent years as temperatures were brought in by the La Nina climate which cools the ocean temperatures in the northern hemisphere.
Says meteorologists in reports
Although countries pledged under the Paris Agreement of 2015 to reduce global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, most failed to make adequate progress and last year global emissions of CO2 doubled again following a temporary death caused by the COVID- 19. Countries are already experiencing the effects of inactivity. Meteorologists last year found that catastrophic floods in western Europe last summer had reduced their chances of at least 20% due to climate change – indicating a long-standing principle that at all temperatures the atmosphere could absorb 7 percent more humidity. %, has gone through a period of heavy rainfall.
“This is one of the most visible and tangible changes we are seeing in global warming” said WimThiery, a climate scientist at VrijeUniversiteit Brussels. very limited in limiting climate risks.
The report also found that 2021 sea temperatures in parts of the Baltic and Mediterranean seas were significantly higher as satellite records began in the early 1990s. “Baltic regions were 5 Celsius above average, which is a lot (of the sea),” said FrejaVamborg, a senior climate scientist at C3S.
UN reports said
The effects of climate change will “dramatically increase morbidity and mortality” in the near and long term, the report predicts. “People around the world are already suffering from the effects of climate change at 1.1C global warming,” said Emily Shuckburgh, director of Cambridge Zero at Cambridge University.
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