Global warming may push temperatures in Turkey up by some 6.5 degrees in 80 years - expert
Published 11 Aug,2021 via Hürriyet Daily News - Global warming will affect Turkey just like every other country worldwide, and even after the end of this century, it could lead temperatures in Turkey to soar as much as a drastic 6.5 degrees, warned a scholar from the Turkish capital Ankara on Aug. 10.
"Global warming, as confirmed in the new U.N. climate report, will continue in the coming decades and, based on all-new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios, will continue beyond 2100," said Ismail Yücel, a civil engineer who studies climate change at Ankara's Middle East Technical University (METU), speaking on the “Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying” report released Monday.
Assessing the effects of climate change in Turkey in light of the report, he said that with global warming, the air’s capacity to retain water vapor has risen some 7%.
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