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...A report 'Un climat à la dérive, comment s'adapter?' ('A changing climate - how to adapt to it?') presented to the government late in June by the National Observatory on the Effect of Global Warming (ONERC, after its French name) says temperatures in France could rise by nine degrees Celsius by the end of this century...

...France is particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming due to changes in sea streams, environmentalists say. According to official figures, more than a fifth of the French coast is already affected by erosion.

The erosion is particularly visible at the beaches on the south-west Atlantic coast. It is affecting around half of all beaches here...

...Sea level is believed to have risen as a result of higher water temperature and the melting of glaciers, leading to more powerful tides and a change in the pattern of water streams...

...Rising water temperatures and deforestation as a result of global warming are already bringing the extinction of fish and other species, Aubel said. ”What is in particular danger is biodiversity.”

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Scientists are being careful not to claim global warming is causing more hurricanes, because it will probably take years more of data to prove if this is so; but it seems possible.

[ 01 August 2005: Message edited by: Contrarian ]