Where will the tourists go? Europe’s winning and losing destinations due to the climate crisis
Where will the tourists go? Europe’s winning and losing destinations due to the climate crisis
Analysis by European Commission experts places parts of Spain among those regions where the number of overnight stays will fall the most with the advance of global warming. Cyprus and Greece will suffer the largest drop
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Imagine traffic jams to get into Scandinavia while the Côte d'Azur burns.
I'm picturing the people sipping their martinis in the Arctic circle
I think there will be a time where the polar circles are going to be the only habitable place on earth
We did have temperatures like 8 degrees higher then today. It means rainforest covered large parts of the world. However the North European plain was also covered in water, which is a slight issue.
We've had much-warmer temperatures on Earth, but outside of when humans were around.
https://www.climate.gov/media/11332
If you're in Europe, 90°F is ~32°C and 50°F is 10°C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth
Throughout Earth's climate history (Paleoclimate) its climate has fluctuated between two primary states: greenhouse and icehouse Earth.[1] Both climate states last for millions of years and should not be confused with glacial and interglacial periods, which occur as alternate phases within an icehouse period and tend to last less than 1 million years.
Earth is now in an icehouse state, and ice sheets are present in both poles simultaneously.
A "greenhouse Earth" is a period during which no continental glaciers exist anywhere on the planet.[6] Additionally, the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (such as water vapor and methane) are high, and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) range from 28 °C (82.4 °F) in the tropics to 0 °C (32 °F) in the polar regions.[7] Earth has been in a greenhouse state for about 85% of its history.[6]
We can live in even the warm areas of an Earth like that, but it'd be an Earth that's warmer than humanity has ever experienced.
That's pretty close to this summer