"The European region has on average seen temperatures rise 0.5 degrees Celsius each decade since 1991, the UN's World Meteorological Organization and the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service found in a joint report. As a result, Alpine glaciers lost 30 metres (just under 100 feet) in ice thickness between 1997 and 2021, while the Greenland ice sheet is swiftly melting and contributing to accelerating sea level rise."
"'Europe presents a live picture of a warming world and reminds us that even well-prepared societies are not safe from impacts of extreme weather events,' WMO chief Petteri Taalas said in a statement. WMO splits the world into six regions, with the European region covering 50 countries and including half of the swiftly warming Arctic, which is not a continent in its own right."
Temperatures in Europe increased at more than twice the global average over the past three decades, averaging about 0.5°C per decade since 1991. Alpine glaciers lost roughly 30 metres of ice thickness between 1997 and 2021. The Greenland ice sheet is melting rapidly, contributing to accelerating sea level rise, and Greenland recorded melting and its first-ever rainfall at the highest point last year. High-impact floods and storms in the latest year caused hundreds of deaths, directly affected more than half a million people and generated economic losses exceeding $50 billion. Many European countries have cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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