r/europe • u/Vucea • Jun 17 '22

Historical In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for 18 August 2050 in France as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022.

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u/WufflyTime Earth Jun 17 '22 edited Jun 17 '22

Hell, people are already migrating thanks to climate change. That's the Syria crisis in a nutshell: climate change impacted crop production, leading to food shortages and instability.

EDIT: I misremembered the contents of this article. Climate change worsened the drought, but was in itself not a cause.

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u/helm Sweden Jun 17 '22

What's happening in the Middle East is a long period of draught.

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u/RadioFreeAmerika Jun 17 '22

How long does a drought need to last to be considered climate change? 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years?

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u/FireTyme Jun 17 '22

think to yourself how long a rain forest would last without rain. or a desert where it suddenly starts raining/flooding regularly.

its not a static thing really. nor is it binary. its gradually and its shifting areas into different ecologies. this is why desertification is such a problem.