According to one piece of research, the average temperature in Europe has increased far more than it has everywhere else in the globe. But it also emphasizes some good features of the situation.
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According to the climate report that was released on Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the EU's Climate Change Service, temperatures in Europe rose between 1991 and 2021 at an average rate of 0.5 degrees Celsius per decade. This is more than twice the rate at which temperatures have risen around the world as a whole over the past 30 years. As a result, we can expect this pattern to continue.
According to a paper that was issued in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference that will begin in Egypt on Sunday, the Alpine glaciers lost around 30 meters of their ice thickness between the years 1997 and 2021 as a result of warming. Additionally, the ice sheet that covers Greenland is melting at a fast rate, which speeds up the increase in sea level. At the highest point of the ice sheet, rainfall rather than snow was seen and recorded for the first time in the previous year.
According to the head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Petteri Taalas, the current situation in Europe demonstrates that "even well-armed civilizations are not secure from the consequences of catastrophic weather occurrences." He was referring to the severe heat and forest fires that occurred in Europe both this summer and last summer, as well as the disastrous storms and floods that occurred in the previous year.
In the same breath, the study draws attention to a number of good features. The European Union as a whole managed to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases by about a third between the years 1990 and 2020, and the transnational collaboration that was used to adapt to climate change was a model for the rest of the world.
Carlo Buontempo, the director of Copernicus' European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, was quoted as saying, "European society is exposed to the fluctuation and change in climate" (ECMWF).
However, Europe is also at the forefront of worldwide efforts to both combat the effects of climate change and find creative responses to the challenges posed by the changing environment. -Carlo Buontempo, ECMWF .
The World Meteorological Organization separates the globe into six distinct areas. There are fifty nations that make up Europe, and it also encompasses fifty percent of the Arctic.