Global Warming Will Burning the Mediterranean Basin

17 October 2007 - CNN Türk

Global warming will cause temperature rise of 0.7-1.6 degrees in 2025 in the Mediterranean Basin. Between 2045-2075, the temperature rise can reach 2 degrees.

[[T]]WWF Turkish Water Resources Program Manager Buket Spring Dıvrak needed that in recent years of drought, one of the most important effects of global warming, not only Turkey, but many regions of Europe have also affected. [[[T]The most accessible countries in the mat are Spain, Turkey, Portugal and England. [[
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Dıvrak, which tells the most impactable cut in Europe according to the data of the European Environmental Agency, is the Mediterranean part of the Mediterranean part, in Turkey, will face a low water problem of a part of the Black Sea and Marmara regions, and in the Aegean and Central Anatolia regions, it would cope with very serious water shortage.

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Buket Spring Dıvrak attention to the average temperature of the world in the 20th century, while the European temperature rises 0.95 degrees: "In particular, the effects of future review in the Mediterranean will be more vammer than the world averages. In 2025, global warming will be 1 degree, and temperature in the Mediterranean will increase from 0.7-1.6 degrees. 20-50 years later, the temperature rise can find 2 degrees.

2 degree increase in the Mediterranean climate will be heated more, the drought will be accompanied by changes in the climate will be seen. So the temperature rise in the will increase 1-2 degrees from current conditions. However, temperatures can increase to 5 degrees in the internal segments of Italy and Turkey from the influence of the sea. "

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Buket Spring Dıvrak expressed that the number of extreme hot days in the Mediterranean, particularly in the internal segments, and 30 percent of the amount of obstacles in the north of the region is expected: "2 degree temperature rise will bring the danger of forest fire over the year in South Mediterranean. In other regions of the Mediterranean, forest fire hazard is reported to be spaced for six weeks. Temperature and drought will lead to decline in agricultural yield.

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The increase in hot air waves and forest fires will cause the Mediterranean to lose holidaymakers in summer. While the spring and autumn continue to be attractive for some holidaymakers, families will prefer to spend their summer holidays in other places.

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Divrak, in the region where the effects of magnitude are running to feel, more drought climate, drop in the amount of hunger, spinning water consumption in agriculture, the problem is such as the loss of surface waters have started to create huge troubles from now, Dıvrak expressed that the recent 2 degree of temperature rise in the North Mediterranean leads to a 50 percent of the plants, this loss can rise to Spain's north, Mountains and especially 80 percent in France.

Buket Spring Dıvrak said the increase in forest fires, spread of foxies and grasses, so it would cause forest fires to splash in larger areas, said, "WWF will hit the Mediterranean fountain in 2006, according to the report release.

Dıvrak that rainfalls in the entire Mediterranean Basin have been seen 20 years in the last 25 years, when it comes to 2050, the sea level is expressed by increase by 20-40 arbitration, stressed that this situation will cause damage to countries and organizations such as Turkey and Algeria.

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