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Climate: "The two challenges of global warming"

2022-10-30T20:22:52.304Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Cyrille Vanlerberghe. For holidaymakers who gather on the beaches of the coast, for those who taste the joys of dining outdoors, the return of summer temperatures a few days before All Saints Day is an unexpected and welcome happiness. We would be wrong not to take advantage of it. But we must also recognize what is deeply abnormal about such late heat. If it was the first meteorological anomaly of the year, we could b


For holidaymakers who gather on the beaches of the coast, for those who taste the joys of dining outdoors, the return of summer temperatures a few days before All Saints Day is an unexpected and welcome happiness.

We would be wrong not to take advantage of it.

But we must also recognize what is deeply abnormal about such late heat.

If it was the first meteorological anomaly of the year, we could be reassured by saying that there have always been extraordinary climatic episodes in the past.

Signals that all go in the same direction

But the accumulation of heat waves in the spring, the repeated heat waves this summer and the exceptional mild weather of the past few days are signals that all point in the same direction: like the rest of the planet, our country is warming up, and quickly. .

With a historic drought, heat waves, sometimes deadly thunderstorms, forest fires, our country has undergone in recent months a taste of the inventory of disasters that will bring…

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Source: lefigaro

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