Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Climate change as a matter of fact in Europe: Climate refugees



Extreme weather exiles: how climate change is turning Europeans into migrants.  (Euro News, 3/5/2020)
Climate events causing displacement in Europe have more than doubled in the last four years, from 43 in 2016 to 100 in 2019. By February 2020, four storms – Gloria, Brendan, Ciara and Dennis – had already wreaked havoc on the continent’s northern and western coasts. 
The science is abundantly clear – climate change aggravates extreme weather events, making them deadlier and increasing the chance of them becoming more widespread. “Our climate projections show that the events that we are now classifying as extreme will become more frequent in the future. They will become the new normal,'' says Gianmaria Sannino, head of the Climate Modelling Laboratory at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA).

Other Europe posts:
Norway, Finland, and Sweden.  (7/19/2018)
Portugal.  (6/19/2017)
The Netherlands.  (6/19/2017)

Other editions:
Africa
Birds/bees/flowers/trees
Business and finance
Oceans
Polar
Worldwide

Other Climate Change as a Matter of Fact posts

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