In addition to summer heat waves, Europe will now also have to get used to winter heat: records for mildness were broken in late December and early January on the Old Continent.
In mainland France, the year 2022 was by far the hottest on record (with an average annual temperature of 14.5°C) and one of the driest (with a record rainfall deficit of some 25%).
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It was a terrible year in terms of climate all over the world, marked by an avalanche of extreme events: heat waves and mega forest fires in Western Europe, devastating floods in Pakistan, drought in the Horn of Africa... Although exceptional, 2022 has unfolded in the image of recent times, since the last eight years have been the hottest on record in the world.
These are indeed symptoms of man-made global warming.
The scientists are formal.
But they insist: there is still time…
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