The Guardian reports about a new research, according to which, in three decades London will have a similar climate to that of Barcelona today, and the change could be accompanied by severe drought.
Other analogues include Madrid, which will feel like present-day Marrakech by 2050, and Stockholm like Budapest. Around the world, cities that are currently in moderate or cold zones in the northern hemisphere will resemble cities more than 1,000km closer to the equator, with damaging effects on health and infrastructure.
Almost eight in 10 cities will experience dramatic changes, according to the study of 520 major cities published in the journal Plos One.
Tom Crowther, founder of the Crowther Lab in Switzerland, which carried out the research said the world is not ready for such climate change. The sooner the planning starts, the less the impact will be.
Concern about the world’s lack of preparedness for the effects of global heating is mounting among experts. Mami Mizutori, the UN secretary general’s special representative on disaster risk reduction, told the Guardian that climate crisis disasters were happening at a very quick the rate, but that countries were not investing in making urban infrastructure more resistant.