‘The Netherlands is warming up twice as fast as the world average’ – Wel.nl
“The temperature continues to rise. The Netherlands is warming up twice as fast as the world average, especially because we have so much sun,” says Gerard van der Schrier, climate researcher at KNMI in Het Parool. that in the future it will become cloudier and drier in particular in the summer, the winters slightly warmer and wetter.”
“Globally, it’s getting wetter. But the area in which that rain falls is decreasing. Other areas are actually getting drier. That is a result of climate change. You see that when it rains, it also rains more often.”
“Southern Europe is expected to be drier, Northern Europe wet and we are somewhere in between. How dry it gets here in the summer strongly depends on the amount of fossil fuels we burn.”
“Amsterdam is Paris. The capital has the annual average temperature of Paris, 50 years ago. In spring, the temperature in Amsterdam is even comparable to that in Nice in the 1970s.”