Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Going To Need A Bigger Parasol

Some politicians deal with Climate Change by willfully denying the mounting danger or cheerfully ignoring it but the changing Climate is so big and slow that it sometimes doesn’t seem real but it doesn't mean it isn't happening.  The map at the Center For Environmental Science at the University of Maryland identifies the place with a climate that your city is estimated to have in 60 years’ time and some are facing a climate that is literally out of this world.
Already there is something called a 'Coolcation where instead of heading south for hot weather, more and more Europeans are traveling north, where it’s cooler.
Since 1991, summers across Europe have been getting warmer by about 0.5°C (1°F) per decade, with starkly different outcomes in the north and south of the continent, in North Europe, Summer  temperatures generally hover between 20 and 25°C (68-77°F) while in Southern Europe the summer months are increasingly dry and unbearably hot, with temperatures regularly surpassing 40°C (104°F).
For now, the Scandinavians are benefiting from warmer summers but unfortunately we have been dozy enough to continue polluting our atmosphere so climate change is not stopping so how hot will the summers of the future get?
The University of Maryland Center looks 60 years into the future and predicts the climate of thousands of cities and towns in the 2080s and finding their climate equivalent today.
So in Scandinavia, the Danish Capital of Copenhagen, by 2080 it will be 4.7°C (8.4°F) warmer and on a par with today’s climate in Demigny, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France, Stockholm in Sweden would be 5.2°C (9.3°F) warmer or just like Dubosevica in Croatia today, Oslo would be 5.4°C (9.8°F) warmer and most similar to Gerovo in Croatia and the conditions in the Capital of Finland, Helsinki, would be similar to Nagyatad in Hungary by 2080.
The South of England would be 5.2°C (9.3°F) higher with Climate conditions most similar found today in Biscarrosse, the South of France and Edinburgh would be 4.1C warmer just like Basque Country in Spain.
Paris will be 5.8°C (10.5°F) warmer and in 2080 can be found today in Montelupone, Italy, Berlin 5.7°C (10.2°F) warmer and will be like Padulle in Italy, and Ankara in Turkey will be 7.2°C (12.9°F) warmer, similar to Kalaleh in Iran.
Tokyo, Japan is expected to be 4.4°C (8°F) warmer and that climate in 2080 can be found today in Zhangwan, Fujian, China and in Calgary, Canada it is expected to be 7.3°C (13.1°F) warmer that can be found today in South Dakota, United States.

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