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Europe’s warming up at nearly twice the global average, says new report
2023 bought extreme heatwaves, wildfires, and flooding.
Europe is warming up at twice the global average, leading to deadly heatwaves and severe flooding, according to the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report for the year 2023, released Monday. The ESOTC report for 2023 is the latest data point in a grim trend that has been documented for a while.Over the past three decades, Europe’s temperatures have risen twice as much as the rest of the world. Climate experts say this is largely due to Europe’s geographic positioning: the continent is directly below the Arctic, the fastest-warming region in the world.
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