Heating up Europe
While the New Yorker pontificates on whether more fuel-efficient cars will ever happen, and the British government appears to be about to go back on recent commitments to increase the use of renewable energy, the European Commission has published several papers and maps on their website showing how they expect the average precipitation, average temperature and crop yields in Europe to change over the rest of this century if no action is taken to reduce emissions. Things could get pretty uncomfortable in southern Europe – drier, hotter and much poorer crop yields. Additionally, around half of all plant species in Europe could be threatened with extinction if nothing is done to reduce emissions.
