Climate change in Europe

The temperature rises in Europe very fast. The Mediterranean is south of the areas which are particularly hard hit and in danger of turning into arid land, while the North threatened instead be converted into a permanently wet area.

Report of the European Environment Agency, the World Health Organization and the European Commission also shows that European governments should invest in adaptation to climate change more and faster. Since global warming risk the mountains, the coasts of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Arctic.
The average global temperature has increased by nearly 0.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and even higher temperature increases in Europe and northern latitudes, highlight the report's authors.

The temperature in Europe has risen by 1 degree Celsius. In northern Europe will increase the humidity this century, while most of Mediterranean Europe may be turned into desert, according to the trends that already exist. The lethal heat waves in Europe, as of 2003, may be more often, while "The annual changes in rainfall exacerbate the differences between a wet northern part of Europe and a dry south.

Among other impacts of climate change is rising sea levels. Some fish populations already moved 1,000 km north in the last 40 years, notes the report, stressing also that two-thirds of Alpine glaciers disappeared in 1850.

In Europe, 4 million people and 2 trillion euros property exposed by the floods caused by rising sea levels by 2100. Few in Europe would benefit from these changes, such as farmers in the north, which will have longer to grow their products.

The newspaper "Guardian" wrote that the mobile phones via GPS can calculate the movement of users and inform them how much they charged to the environment in emissions of carbon dioxide.