European climate will become more and more like Vietnam if CO2 continues to increase

According to the current CO 2 emission trend, European people may soon have to learn how to live with the hot and humid tropical climate that happened 50 million years ago.

Europe is undergoing a record heat wave and if the world cannot reduce CO 2 emissions to the environment, this old continent runs the risk of living with a tropical climate as it once happened. here 50 million years ago.

Picture 1 of European climate will become more and more like Vietnam if CO2 continues to increase
Europe will move into a tropical climate if CO 2 emissions increase.

According to a team from the University of Bristol, UK, tropical climate may become Europe's characteristic by the end of the century if CO 2 emissions continue to increase today.

To draw this conclusion, the team investigated the natural conditions of the Earth in the first phase of the Paleogene, about 56-48 million years ago.

During this time, the concentration of Earth's CO 2 is similar to the predicted greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the 21st century. Besides, the climate characteristics and impacts of CO2 in the Paleogene century also raised great concern.

Based on ancient fossil fossil analysis, scientists can estimate the temperature in the period about 50 million years ago.

Dr. David Naafs, a University of Earth scientist. Bristol said: "We know that the typical climate of the Paleogene century is the climate that is affected by greenhouse gases with high levels of CO 2 in the atmosphere. Most of the previous Paleogene temperature estimates they are all collected only from the ocean, not the ground, but this study has partly accurately answered the warmth of the soil surface in the Paleogene century. "

The team found that the annual ground temperature in Western Europe and New Zealand ranged from 23-29 degrees Celsius, much higher than previously imagined. This temperature is even 10-15 degrees higher than the current average.

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Giant heat waves cover Europe in the summer of 2018.

If conditions similar to the Paleogene century appear in the next few years, specifically the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increases sharply, the consequences will be immeasurable.

Professor Rich Pancost, one of the co-authors of the study, said: "Our job is to provide evidence that the climate will become very hot by the end of the century due to the impact of CO2 in the gas. book ".

Heat waves for weeks in Europe are probably an early warning for the people here. Not only did the weather become stifling, hotter, and many people died, the hot weather also indirectly affected agricultural activities and habitat of many wildlife species in Chau. Europe.

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Hundreds of people may die due to the impact of rising temperatures.

A UK-based team warned that hundreds of people could die due to the effects of rising temperatures. Also according to a report by the British Environmental Inspection Commission, the number of high-temperature deaths could be tripled in the middle of the 21st century.

According to scientists, the current double wave of heat waves is closely related to the phenomenon of human-induced climate change.

The research has been published in the recent issue of Nature Geoscience and has received great attention from the European community.