Shaking energetic waxing with shattering facts, motto: “Flood The Zone With Facts”, the intention of the European Climate Wall Service Copernicus and the World Metonology Agency (WMO) can be interpreted behind its latest climate report. The report “European State of the Climate 2024” contains approximately hundred individual scientific contributions Compiled and for the first time a graphics gallery with 130 diagrams and infographics. The bottom line is that there is a central message that is kept in the vocabulary as apolitical as it is unmistakable: Europe is changing climatically on the razor blade. “Every additional fraction of a degree in the temperature increase is important, since this increases the risks for our lives, our economy and our planet,” commented WMO General Secretary Celeste Saulo. External content activate Europe is the continent that heats up the fastest. 2024 had been the hottest year since the start of the recordings, too wet in the west and too dry in the east. The victim balance: Sturm Boris and various floods alone demanded 335 fatalities in one year, 413,000 Europeans had suffered from extreme weather. A third of the European river network crossed the flood mark in the course of the year, twelve percent reached the “heavy flood” category. The leadership of the report is located at the European Center for Medium -term weather forecasts (ECMWF) in Great Britain. For a good ten years, millions of climate data have been collected and evaluated there for a good ten years. This year, the balance sheet with regard to the climate variables is thoughtfully thoughtfully. Quote: Temperature: 2024 was the hottest year in Europe, with a record year temperatures on almost half of the continent. Sea surface temperature: For the entire year, the SST for the European region was 0.7 ° C above the average and for the Mediterranean with 1.2 ° C the highest since the start of the recordings. Western Europe experienced one of the ten most rainy years in the period under consideration since 1950. Flooding: Europe has experienced the most severe floods since 2013. Almost a third of the river network was affected by floods that exceeded at least the flood threshold. An estimated 413,000 people were affected in Europe, at least 335 people were killed. Activate external content: the number of days with ‘strong’, ‘very strong’ and ‘extreme’ heat stress was the second highest since the start of the records. In 60 percent of Europe there were more days with at least ‘strong’ heat stress than on average. The proportion of electricity generation from renewable energies in Europe achieved a record high. Calculate extreme with 45 percent: The proportion of European land space with less than three months (90 days) with frost was the highest of all times (~ 69 percent, average 50 percent): fewer days with at least ‘strong cold’. The glaciers in Scandinavia and Spitzbergen recorded the greatest mass loss since the beginning of the records. Forest fires: In September, around 110,000 ha (1100 km²) burned in Portugal, which corresponds to about a quarter of the entire annual fire in Europe. An estimated 42,000 people were affected by the forest fires in Europe. Climate -political the report is limited to two areas. On the one hand, climate adjustment is emphasized: after all, half of the European cities have developed and published their own climate protection plans. And as far as the energy transition is concerned, the renewable offensive is emphasized: The proportion of electricity generation from renewable energies in Europe achieved a record value of 45 percent in 2024, the number of EU countries in which more electricity from renewable energies than fossil fuels has almost doubled from twelve to 20 since 2019.
