Water shortages, extensive fires, high food prices and severe crop losses were among the most important impacts of one of the hottest European summers on record, with heat waves and exceptionally low rainfall across the Northern Hemisphere.
How is the north affected by climate change?
Climate change models are projecting major changes in northern sea ice, including a possible reduction in summer ice extent by 60% for a doubling of carbon dioxide and possibly a complete disappearance of summer ice by 2100. Early ice breakup or complete loss of ice would have a profound effect on northern lifestyles.
What is causing the Northern Hemisphere drought?
Droughts in Northern Hemisphere made 20 times more likely by climate change. High temperatures that caused widespread drought across the Northern Hemisphere in summer 2022 were fuelled by climate change, finds a new analysis. This summer was one of the hottest ever recorded in Europe