What will Europe feel like in the future?

That question was answered by a team of scientists that looked at current studies on global warming and created a map that relocates Europe's capital cities to the present region that most closely resembles their impending future circumstances:


Warmer temperatures and less rainfall mean all the cities drift several hundred miles to the south, so, for instance, in 2071 London will look like Lisbon looks now and will be defined by heat, dust, and water piped in from Scotland; Paris will feel how central Spain now feels; Berlin, unbelievably, will be like north Africa; Oslo will be relocated to Teruel in north-eastern Spain; Barcelona goes to north Africa, and the closest present match for Rome is the Cypriot capital, Nicosia:

To help explain how global warming will affect many European cities, the scientists redrew the map of the continent by shifting a dozen capital cities to the places that most closely resemble their predicted climates for later this century.
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Stéphane Hallegatte, a climate expert at the International Centre for Research on the Environment and Development in Nogent-sur-Marne, France, said: "We wanted to translate the information we get from climate models in a way that is easy to understand. It can be hard to appreciate what a three degree rise means, but people can look at this and really grasp the scale of some of the changes."
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If emissions continue to rise, then by the 2080s scientists say virtually every summer in England and Wales could be warmer than during the 1995 heatwave.

One of the scientists behind the map says that it's also meant to help architects and officials who plan buildings, streets and services to adapt to the likely impacts of global warming, but I think its strongest message is for the common people, who can see clearly what global warming could mean for their everyday life.

I think it's a cool map but really scary. Turin, where I'm from, could feel like either Athens or Tunis, which are way hotter than what we're used to.