Heat waves, droughts, viruses, inflation!Europe "can't breathe"

China News Service, July 21 (Meng Xiangjun) The heat waves that refresh their historical records have recently swept Europe. At least five European countries have announced their emergency state or released a red alarm. From the health of the people, transportation to food and energy production, it is all affected.

Coupled with the new crown epidemic, high inflation and energy crisis, can Europe still breathe over?

[High temperature rush to 47 degrees hundreds of people died]

This rare heat wave has caused European countries to be "baked".

France rushed that the country's temperature exceeded 40 degrees Celsius, and the coastal city Biliaz has set a high temperature record of 42.9 degrees Celsius, and the authorities have to evacuate 14,000 people.

The United Kingdom announced that the country's first record of 40 degrees Celsius, even if the healthy people have risks to cause serious disease or even death, the government has released extreme high -temperature red warnings for the first time.

Portugal complaint: The highest temperature in Piniyang in the northern part of the country soared to 47 degrees Celsius last week, and 659 people died of high temperature weather within a week, most of which were elderly people.

Spain said that due to high temperature weather, the number of deaths in the country has exceeded 200 since the summer, and the data is expected to continue to grow.

What is even more worrying is that the World Meteorological Organization warns that the climate of abnormal climate like high temperature will become more and more frequent. A large amount of carbon dioxide produced by human activities may make the trend of climate deterioration at least 2060.

[The airport runway melts the fire scene "Ru Hell"]

Taking the United Kingdom as an example, the situation is serious this time. Not only did the runway at London's Ludon Airport melted due to high temperature, a railway orbit near London also deformed and cracks appeared. Authorities had to suspend flights to take off and land to slow down and reduce transportation systems such as subways and trains. The commuting time of office workers was stretched, and some companies simply took off or let employees at home.

According to reports, there is no tradition of air -conditioning in England. In the past few years, high -temperature weather has spawned electric fan to snap up the wave. However, under the heat wave, many people with fans have found that the wind blowing wind is also hot. People have to drag their homes to stay in the hotel near the house just to enjoy the coolness of the air conditioner.

The British Minister of Transportation estimates that the British "will have to be fully upgraded to high temperature weather after many years after many years.

On the 20th of local time, many British media front -headlines, without exception, focus on the fire caused by high temperature and drought weather in London and surrounding. These fires have caused dozens of houses to be destroyed, affected thousands of people, and many people are homeless.

The British media described the United Kingdom as a "ignition box", calling for the "hottest day in history" in the country, and people who encountered fires were running for life. Picture source: Screenshot of the British "Sun" report

Many British media described that Britain is like a huge flammable "fire box". Aerial photos showed that there was a wolf borrowing after the fire in London and surrounding areas. The firefighters participating in the fire extinguishing sighed in an interview that the scene was "like hell". 16 firefighters were injured during the fire extinguishing process.

The Mayor of London Sadik Khan said that July 19 was the "busiest day" since the World War II, because the department may receive a number of hundreds of reports on fire or request for rescue, because the department may usually receive a number of hundreds of reports on fires or request for rescue. But on this day, they received more than 2,600 calls.

[Energy and food suffer from a vicious cycle]

On July 18, the European Commission Joint Research Center issued a European drought report that the drought was severe this month, and 44%of the land of the European Union and the United Kingdom was in a "drought warning" state, and 9%were in a "drought warning" state.

It has a great impact caused by drought, one is the reduction of food production.

According to reports, in the spring of 2022, European rainfall was less than in previous years, and the climate was abnormal. The water levels of the river, German, Italian, Hungarian, West, Portuguese and other countries declined. Essence

The second is to affect life.

For example, more than 200 cities in Italy have issued regulations to strictly restrict water use. Many cities and towns shut down the fountains, prohibit car washing, pouring vegetables and gardens, and the supply of drinking water is also suspended at night.

The third is energy shortage.

Water storage and power generation in many European countries have decreased, and energy supply has impacted energy. The water storage capacity of the Spanish reservoir is 31%lower than the average level in the past 10 years; Portugal's hydropower water volume has only 50%of the average level in the past seven years.

What matters to the snow is that after the start of the Russian and Ukraine conflict, Europe launched energy embargo on Russia, making energy problems more prominent.

The Hungarian government has announced its entering energy emergency; the head of the German Paper Industry Association said that the shortage of natural gas may greatly affect the production of German paper products, and even completely stopped in the future.

However, in the summer shortage and "warm" in winter, the sanctions on Russia have been implemented in the sixth round, including some oil embargo and sanctions on Russian oil tankers. The European Union is still being drafted in the seventh round of sanctions, this time is the embargoing Russian natural gas.

This is not over. According to foreign media reports, the European Commission intends to relax and discharge control and use other more serious energy for energy such as coal to make up for the shortage of Russian natural gas.

The life of Europeans began to change. Without oil and natural gas, they burned coal, cut trees and burned firewood. Politicians called for less bathing, driving less, less driving, less out of the house, using less electricity, throwing away the refrigerator, oven, and washing machine. Abandoning modern lifestyle is just to reduce dependence on Russia.

As many European countries plan to burn coal this winter and increase greenhouse gas emissions, climate problems will definitely deteriorate and form a vicious circle. In Europe, which has always been environmentally friendly, this time is really closed, my heart is horizontal, and I fight! [The new crown epidemic has a synchronous pinch of inflation]

In addition to "deep water", Europe will also be hit by another new crown epidemic and high inflation.

Crug, director of the European Guard Europe, pointed out on the 19th that the Omikon variants have set off a new wave of new crown epidemic in Europe. In the past week, nearly 3 million new confirmed cases have been registered, accounting for nearly half of the world's new cases of new cases in the world. ; The hospitalization rate has doubled, and nearly 3,000 people die every week.

He warned that Europe must move to control the epidemic in order to prevent the heavier medical systems in various countries. This also shows that, like the British Prime Minister Johnson, who has stepped down shortly ago, cancels the way of "lying" such as "lying" resistance such as mandatory masks, and does not help control the epidemic.

Finally, look at the dilemma of high inflation and low growth facing Europe. Russia and Ukraine's conflict, rising to Russia, rising global food and energy prices have seriously impacted the EU economy. Moreover, the new crown epidemic cannot stop the car and will affect economic growth.

After the economic and financial cycle of the euro zone lags behind the United States, after the Federal Reserve ’s first interest rate hike, the strengthening of the US dollar has continued to decline in the exchange rate of the euro to the US dollar. Recently, it has even occurred that a rare situation of 1 euro against 1 dollar.

In early July, investigation by the German polls Insa showed that about 91%of the Germans were saving money due to high inflation and high energy prices. Regardless of buying clothes, food and water, vacation, driving, even involving cultural entertainment and subscribing media products, the Germans are holding their wallets. The economic "leader" Germany is like this, and the situation of other European countries can be seen. (Finish)

Source: China News Network

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