EUROPE TO HAVE UNIQUE CLIMATE

A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) predicts that global warming will make much of Europe uninhabitable:

"Without effective action over several decades, global warming will see ice sheets melting in the north and the spread of deserts from the south. The continent's population could effectively become concentrated in the centre. Even if we constrain global warming to the EU target of a 2 °C increase, we will be living in atmospheric conditions that human beings have never experienced. Deeper cuts in emissions are needed", says Jacqueline McGlade, Executive director of the EEA.

The impending desertification makes the Eurabia jibe all the more appropriate. The "atmospheric conditions that human beings have never experienced" claim seems far fetched considering humans have thrived in every imaginable climate on Earth. Maybe McGlade's overstating the situation just a wee bit, you know, to up the fear factor.

Update: Europeans aren't doing enough to fix their climate change problem:

The European Union is likely to miss its greenhouse gas targets by a wide margin, according to an official assessment of the Union's environment.

The European Environment Agency says that the 15 longest-standing members of the EU are likely to cut emissions to just 2.5% below 1990 levels.

But real performance is poor according to the new report on Europe's environmental health - emissions have in fact been rising since the year 2000.

It seems Kyoto was just another one of those meaningless face-saving deals the EU's so prone to sign up to – see post immediately below.