Europe warming at twice the rate of the rest of Earth, climate report warns
As a result of the rising temperatures, Alpine glaciers have thinned out by some 98 feet in the period from 1997–2021.
High impact weather and climate events in 2021 led to hundreds of fatalities, direct impacts for more than half a million people, and total economic damages in excess of £43.9billion.
About 84 percent of the weather events, the WMO noted, were either floods or storms.
Over in Greenland — which, geopolitically speaking, is considered part of Europe — the melting of the ice sheet is contributing to accelerating sea level rise.
In 2021, the country saw not only a melt event but also the first-ever recorded rainfall at the research station at Summit camp, the highest point on the Greenland ice sheet.
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