“The Eastern Mediterranean is the most sensitive region to all these phenomena. All this is part of what we call the climate crisis,” said the professor of Geology and Natural Disaster Management.
The World Meteorological Organization has long sounded the alarm: if climate change continues, in Greece the future will resemble something from Africa and it is possible that we will have the hottest summer, said today the professor of Geology and Natural Disaster Management, Efthymios Lekkas.
Mr. Lekkas, speaking to Mega, initially commented on the forecasts for the level at which temperatures will fluctuate in this summer:
“We are likely to have the hottest summer ever. All over the world the outlook for next summer is ominous. And this is underlined by the high temperatures which currently exist in Spain, France and other parts of the world. The Eastern Mediterranean is the most sensitive region to all these phenomena. All of this is part of what we call the climate crisis.”
As Mr. Lekkas explained about the climate crisis: “Climate crisis means that the temperature rises slowly and steadily, due to human intervention, and this rise in temperature creates huge problems. Not only from the point of view of fires, air pollution, biodiversity, all of these essentially result in desertification. A ‘sugar picture’, where there is no biodiversity and above all there is no water sufficiency and there is soil stripping and of course forest fires”.
With reference to the height of the temperatures, Mr. Lekkas said that there will be high temperatures, but at the same time there will be more intense phenomena and with a longer duration.
“In two years the sea will come in”
“What concerns us is to see the continuous increase in temperature, over time in a decade to fifteen years. We should not miss the general picture”, he emphasized. Asked if we can take preventive measures, he replied: “We can take both at the individual and collective level and a culture must be created to take measures, as states, as individuals and as groups, this is very important.”
Especially for Greece, the professor emphasized: “The major problem is to preserve the surface water, but mainly the underground water. In Mykonos at the moment there are thousands of boreholes, which pump as much water as they can pump, but within two years we will have waterlogging, that is, the sea will “come in”. This is an irreversible phenomenon.”
The scenarios for 48-50 points
A temperature of 48°C in Athens would be absolutely dangerous for human life, according to scientists. Although, as they explain, this is an extreme scenario, our country is in the “red zone” of climate change: in the last 30 years there has been a large increase in temperature in Greece, with the average price in all parts of the territory having increased by 1.3 degrees Celsius.
Source: Skai
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