Oorgo: You have 50 years

August 18, 2004

You have 50 years

How would you like to be told that if you don't change what you're doing, that in less than 50 years or so you were looking at massive changes in your climate. Imagine intense heat in the summer, and torrential downpours, alongside of drought, and then imagine that in Europe, not an equatorial country. It's a little scary.

"...if we go on as we are, we have less than 50 years before we encounter conditions which will be uncharted and potentially hazardous."

The report says:

* by 2050, about 75% of the glaciers in the Swiss Alps will probably have disappeared
* at sea, there has been a northward shift of zooplankton species over the last 30 years by up to 1,000 km (625 miles)
* projections suggest annual river discharge will decline strongly in southern and south-eastern Europe, but increase almost everywhere in the north and north-east of the continent
* cases of encephalitis carried by ticks, and associated with a warming climate, increased from 1980 to 1995 in the Baltic region and central Europe, and remain high.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Europe 'must adapt on climate'

Posted by Oorgo at August 18, 2004 09:33 AM

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