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Climate change means global warming. Temperatures are
increasing, glaciers and the ice-caps are melting and sea levels rising. Our planet is
overheating. This leads to water shortages, extinction of plants
and animal species and numerous other consequences.
Weather monitoring in the south of the Mediterranean indicates that temperatures are getting hotter and the amount of cloud cover has decreased. Less rain reduces water resources, which threatens plants and animals as well as food production. If climate change continues, the future of the Mediterranean would be a desert-like climate.
The only solution is to drastically cut down our global CO2 emissions. Luckily, the Mediterranean region is blessed with an unlimited amount of clean solar and wind energy as well as geothermal energy in Turkey. The techniques to use these renewable energies already exist, but we need strong government support to make clean renewable energy cost-effective. That’s what Greenpeace is fighting for around the world including right here in the Mediterranean.
Weather monitoring in the south of the Mediterranean indicates that temperatures are getting hotter and the amount of cloud cover has decreased. Less rain reduces water resources, which threatens plants and animals as well as food production. If climate change continues, the future of the Mediterranean would be a desert-like climate.
The only solution is to drastically cut down our global CO2 emissions. Luckily, the Mediterranean region is blessed with an unlimited amount of clean solar and wind energy as well as geothermal energy in Turkey. The techniques to use these renewable energies already exist, but we need strong government support to make clean renewable energy cost-effective. That’s what Greenpeace is fighting for around the world including right here in the Mediterranean.
