In what has already been a brutal summer of heatwaves across much of Europe, temperature records are expected to be broken in parts of the United Kingdom, Germany and France this week, putting thousands of lives in danger.
found that Europe was warming faster than many other parts of the globe due to fluctuations in the jet stream caused by rising temperatures.
In fact, Europe has already exceeded the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold for catastrophic climate change set forth by the IPCC, having warmed by 2.2 C since the start of the Industrial Revolution. “Every fraction of a degree counts. Greenhouse gas concentrations are at record levels. Extreme weather and climate disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said of the report.
Indeed, the speed at which climate change is unfolding has caught some experts by surprise. In 2020, for instance, the Met Office produced a hypothetical map of what a summertime heatwave temperatures might look like in the year 2050. That reality, however, was nearly matched this week.produced a hypothetical weather forecast for 23 July 2050 based on UK climate projections.
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