Discussing the ongoing food crisis, he said: Prof Maarten van Aalst from the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement told a press briefing that climate change is producing “compounding and cascading risks”. The effects of water scarcity near Pavia are visible when comparing #Copernicus #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️images of ⬅️ 5 July 2021 and ➡️10 July 2022 #siccità /V2mXaCXx5V- Copernicus EU July 11, 2022 In some places, the Po river has reached its lowest level in 70 years As similar stories played out across Europe, fears of a global food security crisis grew. For example, the Po River basin in northern Italy experienced its worst “ water crisis” in approximately 70 years, disappearing completely in some areas and leading to a 30% drop in the rice harvest. The drought had severe impacts on agriculture. Two-thirds of Europe found itself under drought warnings in what some reported as the continent’s worst drought in 500 years. In September 2022, following months of intense droughts across the northern hemisphere, BBC News published an article under the heading: “China, Europe, US drought: Is 2022 the driest year recorded?”įrom the beginning of May to mid-September, back-to-back heatwaves had swept across Europe, giving the summer the title of “ hottest on record”.
For example, the extreme droughts caused crop failures at a time when “world markets were already struggling with the impacts of the Ukraine war”. The team also focused on the central-west European region, where they find that climate change made the drought three-to-four times worse.Ĭlimate change is causing “compounding and cascading risks”, an author on the study told the press briefing. Yet, in a world without climate change they would be expected only once every 400 years or less. The World Weather Attribution service finds that droughts of this intensity can be expected across the northern hemisphere once every 20 years in today’s climate. A combination of record-breaking temperatures and low rainfall caused rivers to dry, wildfires to rage and crop failures to compound already high food prices.Įlsewhere, the American west experienced its most extreme drought conditions in 1,200 years and sections of the Yangtze – China’s longest river – reached their lowest level since at least 1865 amid extreme temperatures and a “ severe lack of rainfall”. The summer of 2022 saw Europe’s worst drought in 500 years. Saturday, Dec.The droughts seen across the northern hemisphere this summer were made “at least 20 times more likely” by human-caused climate change, according to a new “rapid-attribution” study.
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