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Experts note that the world will face irreversible disasters if multifaceted measures on global warming are not taken by 2030. In our country, there have been natural disasters caused by global warming this summer. According to various studies conducted by B2Press Online PR Service, the drought is the biggest damage caused by climate change to Turkey after the fires and floods in the summer period.

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ISTANBUL (TR) - In recent months, natural disasters of unpredictable magnitude have been experienced around the world. Moreover, destructions do not occur only as short-term disasters, they leave permanent traces behind. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report reviewed by B2Press Online PR Service, a disaster related to weather, climate or water hazard has occurred somewhere in the world on average every day for the last 50 years. The General Directorate of Meteorology (MGM), on the other hand, announced that Turkey experienced the 6th hottest August in the last 50 years last month, in the analysis of the "2021 Summer Season Average Temperature Anomalies" published recently.

55% of Turkey is experiencing severe drought

In the report of MGM, which was reviewed by B2Press Online PR Service, it was reported that in 2021, the hottest summer in the history of America and Europe, Turkey had the 4th hottest summer. While 2010 was recorded as the hottest summer in the history of Turkey, it was observed that the average summer temperature in the country increased with the effect of global warming. A study for the independent international broadcaster 'The Lancet' indicated that hot weather will account for 99% of climate-related disaster deaths by the end of the 21st century. Rising temperatures brought the concerns about drought to the top of the agenda after the fire and flood disasters in the summer months. In the June-August 2021 data of MGM, it was stated that 55% of Turkey experienced severe drought.

Natural disasters turn Turkey into a desert

According to WMO's Atlas of Deaths and Economic Losses from Climate Extremes, reviewed by B2Press, drought is the first of the events that caused the greatest human losses during the 50-year period from 1970 to 2020, with 650 thousand deaths. Immediately after, there are storms with 577 thousand deaths, floods with 58 thousand and high temperatures with 55 thousand. Floods and forest fires in recent months have also caused many loss of life and property in our country, which has faced disasters caused by global warming this summer. Examining the data of the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), B2Press found that while there are an average of 97 forest fires in Turkey each year, this number has increased to 236 in the summer of 2021.