Heard about heat Waves -- Yes the ones you see in Hollywood Movies

Drought leads to overexploitation of groundwater, leading to penetrate deep into the sea. The salinization of groundwater in the Argolid and Heraklion known phenomena. The over-responsible for the disappearance of Lake Koroneia and the great descent of the aquifer in Thessaly. At 20 Aegean islands watered by aquifers. The salinization and the disappearance of river and lake ecosystems will intensify. Public health is affected by climate change. Extreme weather events increase mortality. In August 2003 an unusual heat wave with temperatures over the 40th C struck Central Europe. Almost 15,000 in France and across Europe, 35,000 people lost their lives. The next summer the temperature in Cairo came to 51oC. The tick vector of Lyme disease has reached Sweden as a result of mild winters. Malaria is spreading in Africa, because higher temperatures favor the spread of anopheles.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 1800 was 280 parts per million, and now is 382. The 2050 is projected to reach 550 if we do not act. The IPCC, awarded the Nobel peace organization, has provided that we can take urgent steps to 2100 the climate situation is not catastrophic, although it worse. To do this, we must cut our emissions by 8 to 4 billion tonnes of coal annually. The temperature then stabilized on the rise in C. 2nd According to IPCC, the global economy will slow only in a negligible 3% by 2030, if adopted these cuts.


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