Europe’s climate is heating faster than any other

Contents

00:00 – Smokin’ hot Europeans

00:24 – State of the European Climate Report

01:15 - Headlines

02:27 – Extremes

04:16 – Polar impacts

07:50 – Global context

08:54 – Future change

10:02 - What to do

10:56 - Thanks

2024 was the world’s hottest year on record, and Europe is the continent warming the fastest. Extreme events ravaged Europe last year, including floods, wildfires and storms that claimed hundreds of lives and impacted many thousands more.

To find out more, I spoke to Julien Nicolas, a co-author of the European State of the Climate Report, a huge undertaking that was put together by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting on behalf of the Copernicus Climate Change Service and World Meteorological Organisation.