{"id":239320,"date":"2022-04-25T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/?p=239320"},"modified":"2022-04-25T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:59:00","slug":"extreme-summer-sets-off-warning-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/en\/extrem-sommar-far-varningsklockor-att-ringa\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme summer sets off warning bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/solen_12362-450x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-224763\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forest fires and floods left their mark on the summer of 2021 \u2013 the warmest ever experienced in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extreme weather events underscore the need to quickly limit warming, warns an EU representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lemons rotted on the trees, forests were on fire and snails were burned to death in their shells. During last year\u2019s relentless summer sun, several record highs were recorded on thermometers in southern Europe \u2013 including a provisional national temperature record for Spain of 47 degrees and a provisional European record of 48.8 degrees in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the warmest summer ever experienced in Europe, 1 degree above the 1991\u20132020 average, according to a new report from the EU&#039;s Copernicus climate change service on last year&#039;s climate conditions, with a focus on Europe and the Arctic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201d&quot;We don&#039;t look too far ahead, but focus mainly on things that have already happened. But of course these won&#039;t be the last temperature records we&#039;ll see in Europe,&quot; says lead author Freja Vamborg at a press briefing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the annual surface air temperature in Europe was only around 0.2 degrees above the 1991-2020 average and was not among the ten warmest years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But 2021 was a year of climate contrasts for Europe. The spring was cooler than average, while the summer in many places was characterized by persistent heat waves and drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This contributed to severe fires, with a total of 800,000 hectares of forest and land around the Mediterranean being ravaged in July and August. At the same time, the sea surface was unusually warm in June and July, for example, temperatures were measured more than 5 degrees above average in the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dThat&#039;s quite a lot,\u201d notes Vamborg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>While the heat was setting in<\/strong>&nbsp;Like a red-hot pot lid over the southern tip of the continent, record-breaking rainfall combined with already waterlogged soils caused the most devastation and exceptional flooding in Western Europe. Divers recovered bodies in Germany, cars were piled up in Belgium and bridges collapsed as water rushed through towns and villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dWe know that we are likely to have more of these types of events in a warmer world,\u201d says Vamborg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dBut it is important to remember that it was not just rainfall that led to the floods, but other climate factors also played a role. This makes it difficult to determine whether the floods themselves were a result of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite short-term variations from year to year, the results for 2021 point to long-term changes in the climate, according to Copernicus. Although it was not a record warm year in Europe or the world, the European continent is around 2 degrees warmer than in pre-industrial times and globally the temperature increase is between 1.1 and 1.2 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN&#039;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently warned that time is running out if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and prevent the most devastating consequences of climate change. The fact that climate-related extreme events are already occurring in Europe underlines the urgency, says Mauro Facchini of the European Commission&#039;s Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dWe face a number of challenges, such as limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, the European Green Deal and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dThe Copernicus report emphasizes the urgent need to act and to do so, it is important to monitor and understand what is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: TT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skogsbr\u00e4nder och \u00f6versv\u00e4mningar satte sin pr\u00e4gel p\u00e5 sommaren 2021 \u2013 den varmaste som har upplevts i Europa. Extrema v\u00e4derh\u00e4ndelser understryker behovet av att snabbt begr\u00e4nsa uppv\u00e4rmningen, varnar en EU-f\u00f6retr\u00e4dare. Citroner ruttnade p\u00e5 tr\u00e4den, skogar stod i l\u00e5gor och sniglar br\u00e4ndes ihj\u00e4l i sina skal. Under f\u00f6rra \u00e5rets obevekliga sommarsol gjordes flera h\u00f6gstanoteringar p\u00e5 termometrarna i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[119,783,289,410],"class_list":["post-239320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turism","tag-sol","tag-sommar","tag-vader","tag-varme"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Extrem sommar f\u00e5r varningsklockor att ringa &#8211; Travel Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Extrem sommar f\u00e5r varningsklockor att ringa \u2013 L\u00e4s senaste nyheterna fr\u00e5n resebranschen p\u00e5 Travel Report.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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