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heat waves that whipped Europe During 2022, they caused 16,300 deaths per year, when the temperature on this continent was 2.3 °C above the pre-industrial average (1850-1900) used
heat waves that whipped Europe During 2022, they caused 16,300 deaths per year, when the temperature on this continent was 2.3 °C above the pre-industrial average (1850-1900) used as a benchmark for Paris Agreement about him changing of the climate.
These are figures from the International Emergency Database (EM-DAT) compiled in a report by the World Meteorological Organization. (WMO) and the Climate Change Service (C3S) from Copernicus released this Monday.
“The unprecedented heat stress experienced by Europeans in 2022 has been one of the main causes of excessive weather-related deaths in Europe. Unfortunately, this cannot be considered an isolated event or a climatic oddity,” said C3S director Carlo Buontempo.
In that sense, he warned that the evolution of the climate system shows that these types of events are part of a pattern “that will make extreme heat loads more frequent and intense throughout the region.”
According to EM-DAT meteorological, hydrological and climate risks – Storms, floods, forest fires, landslides and extreme temperatures“In total, 16,365 people died last year and 156,000 people were directly affected.
67% of events were related to floods and hurricanes, which accounted for most of the total economic damage, which accounted for $2.130 million (€1.944 million at current exchange rates).
Far more severe in terms of mortality were heatwaves, which accounted for 99.6% of deaths, according to the WMO and C3S report on the state of the climate in Europe in 2022, which summarizes in rising temperatures, little rainfall, more wildfires and thaw unprecedented glaciers.
The document confirms that since the 1980s, Europe has warmed twice as much as the world average, with far-reaching consequences for the socio-economic structure and ecosystems of the region.
In 2022, the temperature of the Old Continent was 2.3°C above the pre-industrial average (1850-1900), which was used as a benchmark for the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The second edition of this report coincides with the celebration in Dublin, Ireland) the Sixth European Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and strives to provide data tailored to the specific needs of each region so that they can improve their adaptation and mitigation strategies.
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Europe recorded the warmest summer on record in 2022, and countries like Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, UK and Switzerland it was the warmest year in its history.
The mean annual temperature in Europe was between the second and fourth highest on record, with an anomaly of 0.79°C above the average for the period 1991-2020.
Precipitation was below average across much of the continent, making 2022 the fourth year in a row drought V The Iberian Peninsula and the third in the mountainous regions of the river. Alps and Pyrenees.
In Spain, on July 26, water reserves were reduced to 41.9% of their total capacity, and in some basins this figure is even lower.
France recorded the driest season from January to September, while the UK and Uccle (Belgium) they experienced the driest period from January to August since 1976, with important implications for agriculture and energy production.
Glaciers in Europe have lost about 880 cubic kilometers of ice between 1997 and 2022. The Alps suffered the most, where the average ice thickness decreased by 34 meters. In 2022, they experienced a new annual mass loss record.
ice cap Greenland lost 5,362 ± 527 gigatons of ice between 1972 and 2021, contributing to approximately 14.9 millimeters of global sea level rise. According to scientific estimates, in 2022, he continued to lose mass.
Average sea surface temperatures in the whole area North Atlantic they were the warmest ever recorded, and large swathes of the region’s seas were affected by strong or even “extremely strong” marine heatwaves.
The rate of warming of the surface of the World Ocean, especially in Eastern Mediterranean, Baltic and Black and Arctic south were more than three times higher than the global average.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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