Climate: climate change is accelerating

While deadly tornadoes have touched several states in the United States, other events occurring around the world reflect an acceleration in global warming. First edifying example, the record temperature of 38 ° was raised in the arctic, North from Russia on June 20, 2020. “Never before had such a level of heat been reached in the Arctic in summer“, recalls the journalist. In the South, in Antarctica, “the buried cracks of the Thwaites Glacier are starting to develop and the platform at the front of the glacier could in five to ten years shatter into a thousand pieces“, with, (in the long term) as a consequence, the rise of the oceans.

Besides the disastrous effects for the planet, “the costs of natural disasters in 2021 currently reach 221 billion euros“, or the GDP of Finlanof, explains the journalist on set. Steadily increasing numbers, according to Swiss D “the insurer of the insurers“. Storm Ida (United States) and the floods that hit Germany and Belgium are the natural disasters that have increased the bill for insurers the most in 2021.