<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="546" data-total-count="1210" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class=""><i class="">Drought</i></b>, devilish <b class=""><i class="">winds</i></b> and historic<b class=""><i class=""> heat</i></b> have unleashed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/world/europe/france-split-italy-fires.html" class="" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">vicious wildfires</a>across southern Europe this summer. In June, more than 60 people died in a blaze that whipped through a forest in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/world/europe/portugal-pedrogao-grande-forest-fires.html" class="" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Portugal</a>. Since then, hundreds of fires in Spain, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Greece, Italy and elsewhere have burned thousands of acres, killed untold numbers of <a href="http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/incendies-dans-le-luberon-98-des-animaux-sont-morts-28-07-2017-2146660_23.php" class="" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">wild animals</a> and forced the evacuation of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/26/france-wildfires-corsica-cote-d-azur-holiday" class="" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">thousands of people</a>, including many tourists. Fires in Sardinia forced the evacuation of a prison, with prisoners spending the night on a nearby beach.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="326" data-total-count="1536" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: none; width: 570px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While forest fires are a normal feature of summer in Mediterranean Europe, the <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/26/how-europe-s-wildfires-have-more-than-trebled-in-2017" class="" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">frequency</a> and intensity of the blazes this summer are exceptional. The unprecedented heat that has stoked them, and caused droughts like the one that led to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/world/europe/rome-water-shortage.html" class="" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">water rationing</a> in Rome, is a harbinger of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/28/climate/more-frequent-extreme-summer-heat.html?_r=0" class="" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">what climate change will bring</a>, scientists say.</p><div class="" style="font-family: Verdana-Italic;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/opinion/mediterranean-sardinia-italy-fires-climate.html?mabReward=ACTM6&recid=4ede40ee-bb2e-4dd9-6d1d-4ebf17839821&recp=4&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/opinion/mediterranean-sardinia-italy-fires-climate.html?mabReward=ACTM6&recid=4ede40ee-bb2e-4dd9-6d1d-4ebf17839821&recp=4&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Verdana-Italic;"><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">=======================================================<br class="">“The growth in CO2 emissions closely follows the growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) corrected for improvements in energy efficiency.”<br class=""><br class="">P. Friedlingstein, et al. “Update on CO2 emissions.”<br class="">Nature Geoscience. Published online: 21 November 2010<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">“Changes in world GDP (WGDP) have a significant effect on CO2 concentrations, so that years of above-trend WGDP are years of greater rise </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">of CO2 concentrations.” </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">Granados et al. Climate change and the world economy: short-run determinants of atmospheric CO2. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Environmental science & policy 21 (2012) 50–62</div></div>
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