久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

  Home>News Center>Life
         
 

European winters may vanish by 2080
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-08-19 08:43

Europe is warming up more quickly than the rest of the world, and cold winters could disappear almost entirely by 2080 as a result of global warming, researchers predicted Wednesday.


Snow-shrouded castles in Bavaria may become a thing of the past.
Heat waves and floods are likely to become more frequent, threatening the elderly and infirm, and three quarters of the Swiss Alps' glaciers might melt down by 2050, the study prepared by the European Environment Agency (EEA) said.

"This report pulls together a wealth of evidence that climate change is already happening and having widespread impacts, many of them with substantial economic costs, on people and ecosystems in Europe," EEA executive director Jacqueline McGlade said in a statement.

The average number of climate-related disasters per year doubled over the 1990s compared with the previous decade, costing economies around $11 billion a year, said the report, the first by the European Union body on the impact of global warming on Europe.

"Projections show that by 2080 cold winters could disappear almost entirely and hot summers, droughts and incidents of heavy rain or hail could become much more frequent," the report said.

Climate changes are likely to increase the frequency of floods and droughts like those that hit Europe in the past years, damaging agriculture and making plant species extinct, the Copenhagen-based EEA concluded.

The floods that swept through 11 European countries in 2001 killed about 80 people, while last year's heat wave in western and southern Europe claimed the lives of more than 20,000.

Greenhouse gases

The EEA findings echo those published last week by U.S. climate researchers who predicted that heat waves might become more common as global warming heats the earth and said regions already prone to heat, such as the U.S. Midwest and Europe's Mediterranean area, could suffer even more.

The concentration of carbon dioxide, one of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, in the lower atmosphere is now at its highest level for at least 420,000 years and stands 34 percent above its level before the Industrial Revolution, the EEA report said.

According to the agency's study, temperatures in Europe have risen by an average of 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 100 years and are projected to climb by a further 3.6 to 11.3 degrees this century due to the rise in greenhouse gases emissions.

This compared with a global rise in temperatures of 0.36 to 1.26 degrees Fahrenheit in the past century and a forecast of another rise of 2.52 to 10.4 degrees this century, said the report.

The researchers said glaciers in eight of Europe's nine glacial regions were at their lowest levels in terms of area and mass in 5,000 years.

They forecast that sea levels in Europe would rise at a pace more than two-to-four times faster than the rise seen in the last century -- a threat to low-lying countries such as the Netherlands, where half the population lives below sea level.



Cruise to star in 'War of the Worlds'
Nicole Kidman helped Halle Berry strip
Tidbits of Beijing life
  Today's Top News     Top Life News
 

China opens up press wholesale market

 

   
 

The 16th typhoon this year to hit East China

 

   
 

US closes in on China on Olympic gold tally

 

   
 

China pushes kindergarten security

 

   
 

European drug maker gives up patent

 

   
 

HK witnesses strong economic growth

 

   
  Showbiz calls for better management
   
  Icy work not too cool
   
  Single Britons have lax sexual morals
   
  Carnival couldn't get a ride in Beijing
   
  China's 'hairboy' aspires to be a rock star
   
  Kerry admits to soft spot for Oscar winner Theron
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Feature  
  Bjork: Passions in a cold climate
 
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 毛片在线播放a | 中文字幕一区视频一线 | 精品久久久久久久久久久久久久久 | 成人爽a毛片在线视频 | 黄网站在线播放视频免费观看 | 欧美a级在线观看 | 亚洲美女在线视频 | 韩国美女爽快一毛片免费 | 美女综合网 | 亚洲系列第一页 | 热er99久久6国产精品免费 | 成年人精品视频 | 老司机午夜性生免费福利 | 伊人狠狠丁香婷婷综合色 | 国产高清在线观看视频手机版 | 超薄肉色丝袜精品足j福利 超级乱淫视频aⅴ播放视频 | 国产精品自在欧美一区 | 全国男人的天堂网站 | 日韩在线视频中文字幕 | 日本特黄特色视频 | 国产精品综合一区二区三区 | 亚洲国产精品一区二区久 | 日本aa毛片a级毛片免费观看 | 免费在线观看a级片 | 91大神在线精品视频一区 | 国产一区二区在线观看视频 | 亚洲精品xxxx| 精品久久久久久久久中文字幕 | 欧美成人69| 国产亚洲影院 | 欧美熟videos肥婆 | 中文字幕一区二区三区久久网站 | 日韩欧美国产高清在线观看 | 中文字幕在线免费观看视频 | 国产成人毛片视频不卡在线 | 91久久精品国产免费一区 | 亚洲悠悠色综合中文字幕 | 久久久久久国产视频 | 美女一级毛片视频 | 亚洲精品久久久久久久久久久网站 | 萌白酱福利视频在线网站 |