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Adapting to climate change - SOER 2010 thematic assessment: Climate change is happening and will continue to have far-reaching consequences for human and natural systems. Impacts and vulnerabilities differ considerably across regions, territories and economic sectors in Europe. Strategies to adapt to climate change are necessary to manage impacts even if global temperature stays below a 2 °C increase above the pre-industrial level. The EU adaptation framework aims at developing a comprehensive strategy by 2013, to be supported by a clearinghouse for sharing and maintaining information on climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.
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Average change in European glaciers: Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs
Changes in cumulative net balance of glaciers for EECCA countries: Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs
Climate change — time to act: Climate change is a real and current threat. To avoid major irreversible impacts on society and ecosystems, we must act now.
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Cumulative net balance of glaciers from all European glacier regions: Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs
Cumulative specific net mass balance of glaciers from all European glaciated regions 1946-2006: Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs
EEA - Climate change issues: Width is 320 Duration is 517.34 Video Type is Flash FLV Height is 180
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Effects of climate change: In the past 100 years, the number of cold and frost days has decreased in most parts of Europe, whereas the number of days with temperatures above 25°C and the number of heatwaves have increased. The frequency of very wet days has significantly decreased in recent decades in many places in southern Europe, but increased in mid and northern Europe. Cold winters are projected to disappear almost entirely by 2080 and hot summers are projected to become much more frequent. This will have a continuing effect on mountain regions. For every 1°C increase in temperature, the snowline rises by 150 metres. And by 2050, three-quarters of today's glaciers in parts of the Alps are expected to have disappeared. Source: State of the Environment Report No 1/2005 "The European environment - State and outlook 2005" (published 29 Nov 2005)
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Glacier distribution in Europe: The map shows the distribution of glaciers and ice caps as well as the locations of the available long-term mass balance observations labeled according to their region.
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Glacier mass balance of European regions, 1967–2008: The figure show cumulative mass balance of long-term monitoring programs averaged for the six European regions.
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