Europe is the fastest-warming continent, at nearly twice the average global rate, report says
Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity.
The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s climate agency, Copernicus, said in a joint report that the continent has the opportunity to develop targeted strategies to speed up the transition to renewable resources like wind, solar and hydroelectric power in response to the effects of climate change.
The continent generated 43% of its electricity from renewable resources last year, up from 36% the year before, the agencies say in their European State of the Climate report for last year. More energy in Europe was generated from renewables than from fossil fuels for the second year running.
As I tell all the people all the time, the Nordics is going to be a real nice place to live, but will also become fairly xenophobic (I mean more so, like maybe even US levels) when the climate migrants come flooding in.
Now we count the bodies that we had to stack so we all could get the bag. People, cultures, civilizations, leveled due to greed and the ignored because of repression.
Ain't we a fine and dandy species?
That's until the Gulf stream collapses anyway, then it'll get really cold really quickly.
Trying to predict where won't be hell in the future is its own hell.
I am sure it is a heaven for some autist whose super duper into thermodynamics and modeling.
Long dark winters, no thanks.
Most of Europe already has long dark winters.
To give you some parallels, at a latitude of 45° N you have Montreal in Canada, which already has long dark winters. In Europe, 45° N grazes the northern Adriatic, which is part of the Mediterranean. Everything else is above that.
The Gulf Stream really does make a difference though. The average temps are a lot more bearable, even in the dark winters, as far north as the Nordic capitals.
Helsinki gets average 25h of real sun in january. Berlin 47 Amstersam 63 Lyon 74 Marseille 150
Differences in avg sunshine within europe are huge, and scandinavia is fucking dark in winter, 25h is really very different from 60-ish hours for how depressed one might get from lack of sunlight. Not for me.
But think of how much sunlight you are getting in the summer!
When the temperature changes that notion is going to be quaint and nostalgic.
They will still be long and dark, that's mainly planetary rotation, just not cold anymore unless the gulf stream stops when they'll be very cold.
Verily, since it's the gulf stream that brings in warm waters and hot air. If it doesn't break, it'll bring a lot of good weather.