Record-high winter temperatures sweep across parts of Europe, prompting calls from activists for faster action on climate change while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices.
abc.net.au/news/europe-faces-record-breaking-hot-winter-heatwave/101828308Record-high winter temperatures have swept across parts of Europe over the new year, prompting calls from activists for faster action on climate change while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices.
Czech television reported some trees were starting to flower in private gardens while Switzerland's office of meteorology and climatology issued a pollen warning to allergy sufferers from early blooming hazel plants. "It always rains a lot here, it's very cold, and it's January, [but now] it feels like summer," Bilbao resident Eusebio Folgeira, 81, said.
"The record-breaking heat across Europe over the new year was made more likely to happen by human-caused climate change, just as climate change is now making every heatwave more likely and hotter," Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London, said. On Jahorina mountain above the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, which hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics, it should have been one of the busiest weeks of the season.In one guesthouse, a couple ate dinner alone in the restaurant, the only guests.WatchA ski jumping event in Zakopane, southern Poland, planned for the weekend of January 7–8 was cancelled.
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