In Prague around 2050, it could correspond to the current Tbilisi, says the expert | iRADIO
The current heat wave will probably not be the only one in the future. According to Vojtěch Kotecky from Charles University’s Center for Environmental Issues, we need to start preparing for weather fluctuations. In an interview for Czech Radio Plus, he said that climate changes are more pronounced the closer we are to the pole.
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In quotes, is it just that we have to prepare for more frequent extremes, or if I stay with high temperatures, for example, can they also increase?
Both things can be counted on. First of all, the probability of those extreme situations that we may have experienced in the past or are experiencing now will increase, and at the same time as the global average temperature rises, the limit of what is possible in quotation marks is moving.
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So it is becoming possible for the temperature to reach numbers that would have been extremely unlikely or practically impossible in the given climate zones in the past.
That said, if Paris has a plan: Paris at 50°C, can it really be a reality?
I would not like to speculate about where the extremes may go in the coming decades. But we can look at one particular thing that we know about.
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A few years ago, a group of scientists did research in which they modeled the future climate expected in various European cities and towns if climate change were to proceed as we now expect.
In the event that it is relatively reasonable for us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the global average temperature advances to somewhere around two degrees above the level before the industrial revolution (which is what the international community is talking about), Prague will have a climate corresponding to the current Tbilisi sometime around 2050 . This is a climate that Central Europe has probably never experienced since before the Ice Age.
Another study found that Europe is growing faster than many other parts of the world, including the United States. What is it caused by?
Perhaps it is far more meaningful to look at individual parts of individual continents, because even in the United States, for example, there are large differences. Between, for example, the Southwest, that desert part of the United States that is far more affected, and areas on the East Coast.
Likewise, in Europe, the situation in the Mediterranean is completely different than in Central Europe. There are differences between the continental parts of Europe in the east and the more oceanic parts in the west. So it makes much more sense to look inside the individual continents.
But in general, the closer you are to the pole, the greater the impact of climate change. The changes will probably be much greater in Europe or North America compared to, let’s say, the tropical zone.
Climate adaptation
Could climate change and the associated more frequent heat waves, for example, reverse the migration of people towards cities, which become practically uninhabitable as a result of high temperatures?
I think that it may be one of the factors that will enter into people’s decisions. Much will depend, firstly, on how the socio-economic situation in the countryside will change and secondly, and perhaps more importantly, how individual cities will or will not adapt to climate change.
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We don’t have to be passive. We should be very prepared in the coming years and decades for our climate to look very different from what we were used to in the days of our childhood and youth. We will have to prepare life in the cities for this. The structure of cities, the buildings we have in cities and so on will have to change.
Will we as a society also have to adapt our lifestyles to high temperatures?
We have quite a nice live example in front of us in Europe. Is an area that lives in a warmer climate. She has always lived in my warmer climate. Namely the Mediterranean.
And it is quite possible that we will gradually start adopting some customs from the Mediterranean, or even from countries like Georgia, because they will become necessities in Central Europe as well. Maybe even in Central Europe in the summer months we will be much less active in the afternoon and so on.
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