Climate change threatens the health of the Italian The Mediterranean is under attack climate change and to feel the effects of warming is, and importantly, the health of the population living in cities. urban centers such as Athens, Rome or Marseilles are among the most susceptible to heat waves in Europe caused by upheavals in climate and among those most at risk in the future. To support this theory, a team of Swiss and American scientists who recently published his research on the topic in the magazine Nature Geoscience. With six new climate models the researchers looked at how they could develop the worst effects on health. "We wanted find out if we were able to locate the areas at risk, despite the considerable uncertainties in the development of climatic factors that influence health. "
According to forecasts compiled by researchers for the Mediterranean facing days of fire in detail, the days with temperatures above 32 degrees centigrade will pass the average for the period 1961-1990, approximately two days each summer, about 13 days for 2021-2050 and 40 in the time between 2071 and 2100. The number of heat waves will parallel this growth, with projections of more stringent water catchment areas at low altitudes in southern Europe and Mediterranean coasts. "In some European regions more densely populated, urban areas of Athens, Bucharest, Marseille, Milan, Rome and Naples, there will be more severe changes in terms of impact on health, "says Erich Fischer co-authored the study.
appeal of the factors impacting the lack of effect "heat island" air pollution and the city, included in the calculations the scientists explain the situation to deteriorate further. To underline the seriousness given to everyone in Europe in 2003 were killed in a wave of extreme heat about 40,000 people.
(Rinnovabili.it)
