A new report warns that climate change is causing fewer snowy winter days in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in Europe.
A white Christmas may increasingly become a nostalgic memory as the Northern Hemisphere sees ever fewer snowy winter days due to climate change, with Europe warming quickest, a report warned on Tuesday.Driven primarily by humanity's mass burning of fossil fuels, that decline in days below freezing threatens tourism, the economy and cultures, according to Climate Central.
Tuesday's report by the United States-based research institute argues that man-made climate change had caused more than a third of the 123 countries and nearly half of the 901 cities studied to lose the equivalent of at least a week's worth of days below freezing — zero degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit — over a decade.The report's analysis is based on the daily minimum temperatures covering December to February — roughly the span of the Northern Hemisphere winter — from 2014 to 2023.Those lows were then compared to a simulation of a climate without the warming effects of humanity's widespread use of coal, oil and gas.It found that climate change had particularly increased the number of winter days above zero in Europe, the world's fastest-warming continent.Denmark and the Baltic States were the countries most affected.'The snow, ice and chilly temperatures that used to be hallmarks of the winter season are fast disappearing in many places, threatening ecosystems, economies and cultural traditions,' said Kristina Dahl, Climate Central's vice president for science.'Freezing winter days are crucial for sustaining snow and ice for winter recreation and sports, replenishing the snowpack that supplies freshwater sources, and maintaining plant, animal and insect life cycles,' she added.Cold weather helps to control populations of disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes and ticks, while shorter winters encourage the spread of pollen, and therefore allergie
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