Europe hotting up more than twice global average: WMO
Written by ABC AUDIO on November 2, 2022
GENEVA, ABU DHABI, 2nd November, 2022 (WAM) – Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average over the past 30 years – the highest of any continent in the world. As the warming trend continues, exceptional heat, wildfires, floods and other climate change impacts will affect society, economies and ecosystems, according to a report released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The report, issued ahead of the annual UN Climate Change Conference COP27, in Sharm-El Sheikh, includes input from national meteorological and hydrological services, climate experts, regional bodies and UN partner agencies.
The State of the Climate in Europe report, produced jointly with the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, focused on 2021. It provides information on rising temperatures, land and marine heatwaves, extreme weather, changing precipitation patterns, and retreating ice and snow.
The report says that between 1991 and 2021, temperatures in Europe warmed significantly, at an average rate of about +0.5 C per decade. As a result, Alpine glaciers lost 30 metres in ice thickness from 1997 to 2021.
The Greenland ice sheet is melting and contributing to accelerating sea level rise. In summer 2021, Greenland saw a melt event and the first ever recorded rainfall at its highest point, Summit station.
In 2021, high impact weather and climate events led to hundreds of fatalities, directly affected more than half a million people and caused economic damages exceeding $50 billion. About 84 per cent of the events were floods or storms.
As the climate continues to change, European people’s health is expected to be impacted in many ways, including death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events.
Increases in zoonoses, where diseases are transmitted to humans from animals, are also expected along with food, water and vector-borne diseases, and a rising incidence of mental health disorders.
The deadliest extreme climate events in Europe come in the form of heatwaves, particularly in western and southern countries. easd gesd tqetwaty wry erdh Watch VIKRAM VEDHA 2022 Full Movie Watch ME TIME 2022 Full Movie Watch OLD PEOPLE 2022 Full Movie Watch OLD PEOPLE 2022 Full Movie Watch BLACK ADAM 2022 Full Movie Watch BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS 2022 Full Movie Watch MEMORY 2022 Full Movie Watch THE GRAY MAN 2022 Full Movie Watch APPETITE FOR SIN 2022 Full Movie Watch MEDIEVAL 2022 Full Movie Watch THE MENU 2022 Full Movie Watch LAST SEEN ALIVE 2022 Full Movie Watch FISTFUL OF VENGEANCE 2022 Full Movie Watch LOVE IN THE VILLA 2022 Full Movie Watch M3GAN 2022 Full Movie Watch ROSALINE 2022 Full Movie Watch ENTERGALACTIC 2022 Full Movie Watch THE BATMAN 2022 Full Movie Watch DEADSTREAM 2022 Full Movie Watch VESPER 2022 Full Movie Watch DAY SHIFT 2022 Full Movie Watch THE NEXT 365 DAYS 2022 Full Movie Watch VIOLENT NIGHT 2022 Full Movie Watch UNCHARTED 2022 Full Movie Watch THE NORTHMAN 2022 Full Movie Watch THIRTEEN LIVES 2022 Full Movie Watch CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY 2022 Full Movie Watch MY POLICEMAN 2022 Full Movie Watch SCREAM 2022 Full Movie Watch MY SPECIAL BOY 2022 Full Movie Watch AMERICAN MURDERER 2022 Full Movie Watch SLAYERS 2022 Full Movie Watch THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT 2022 Full Movie Watch INHERITANCE 2022 Full Movie Watch FATHER STU 2022 Full Movie Watch BURIAL 2022 Full Movie Watch THE BOB’S BURGERS MOVIE 2022 Full Movie Watch SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 2022 Full Movie Watch A HUNDRED BILLION KEY 2022 Full Movie Watch The Watcher 2022 Full Movie Watch THE LEGEND OF MAULA JATT 2022 Full Movie Watch THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE 2022 Full Movie Watch HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL. 2022 Full Movie Watch LAAL SINGH CHADDHA 2022 Full Movie Watch BABYLON 2022 Full Movie Watch ME TIME 2022 Full Movie Watch HALLOWEEN KILLS (2021) FULLMOVIE ONLINE STREAMING On FREE Watch ENCANTO (2021) FULLMOVIE FREE ONLINE on ENG-SUB Watch MVP 2022 Full Movie Watch SMILE 2022 Full Movie Watch HALLOWEEN ENDS 2022 Full Movie Watch THE WOMAN KING 2022 Full Movie Watch TERRIFIER 2 2022 Full Movie VER TERRIFIER 2 2022 PELÍCULA COMPLETA VER BLACK ADAM 2022 PELÍCULA COMPLETA VER Smile 2022 PELÍCULA COMPLETA VER HALLOWEEN ENDS 2022 PELÍCULA COMPLETA VER La mujer rey 2022 PELÍCULA COMPLETA One Piece Film: Red 2022 Full Movie The Next 365 Days 2022 Full Movie Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero 2022 Full Movie Thor: Love and Thunder 2022 Full Movie Don’t Worry Darling 2022 Full Movie Prey 2022 Full Movie Minions: The Rise of Gru 2022 Full Movie DC League of Super-Pets 2022 Full Movie The Black Phone 2022 Full Movie Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 2022 Full Movie Jurassic World Dominion 2022 Full Movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022 Full Movie High & Low: The Worst X Cross 2022 Full Movie Orphan: First Kill 2022 Full Movie Sonic the Hedgehog 2 2022 Full Movie Full Movie Full Movie Full Movie Full Movie Full Movie Full Movie Full Movie Full Movie
