Jean Jussel, co-author of the IPCC reports and the enlightening book, deciphers future climate scenarios. via Arnaud MEYER/Leextra opale.photo
Always hotter, drier… How to cope? Rebuild vulnerable areas? Climatologist Jean Jussel, co-author of the IPCC reports and enlightening book, prepares the ground.
In addition to summer heat waves, Europe will now also have to get used to winter heat. mildness records were set in late December and early January on the Old Continent. In mainland France, 2022 was the hottest year on record (annual average temperature 14.5°C) and one of the driest (with a record rainfall deficit of about 25%).
It was a terrible year in terms of climate worldwide, marked by an avalanche of extreme events. heat waves and mega forest fires in Western Europe, devastating floods in Pakistan, drought in the Horn of Africa… Although exceptional, 2022 it opened with an image of recent times, as the past eight years have been the hottest on earth. These are indeed symptoms of man-made global warming. Scientists are formal. But they insist there is still time…
Source: Le Figaro
