MSSpotlight Environment and Sustainability: Europe warming twice as fast as other regions Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, with extreme weather causing excess deaths and economic disruption.
Many nations in the region in 2022 had their warmest year on record but the expanded use of renewable energy provides a silver lining, according to a report issued last week by the World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom had their warmest year on record last year and the summer in Europe was the hottest ever recorded. Spain’s water reserves decreased to 41.9 percent of total capacity by on July 26, with even lower capacity in some basins.The Alps were worst affected, with an average reduction in ice thickness of 34 meters. In 2022, glaciers in the Alps experienced a new record loss of mass in a single year, triggered by low winter snowfall, an extremely warm summer and dust deposits from the Sahara.
The record-breaking heat stress that Europeans experienced last year was one of the main drivers of weather-related excess deaths. “Our current understanding of the climate system and its evolution informs us that these kinds of events are part of a pattern that will make heat stress extremes more frequent and more intense across the region,” said Dr Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
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