Climate change is real
It is undisputed in science that the earth has warmed considerably since industrialization and that the climate has changed significantly, both globally and in Switzerland. The global surface temperature has risen faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period in the last 2000 years. The global average temperature is now higher than it has ever been in the last 2000 years, and very likely in 125,000 years. Many other changes in the climate system can be observed.
Human influence is proven beyond doubt
The rise in temperature is clearly and causally linked to the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially to an increase in carbon dioxide concentration due to the human use of fossil fuels. Purely natural factors (eg solar activity, volcanic eruptions or changes in the Earth’s orbit) cannot explain the increase in the global average temperature.
Observed Climate Change Switzerland
The climate in Switzerland has changed significantly. This is reflected in the development of temperature, water balance and weather extremes. Since the 1960s, every decade has been warmer than the previous one. The seven warmest years were all measured after 2010.
Bar chart showing temperature change in Switzerland switzerland phone number library since the 1870s.
Average temperature of the past decades since measurements began, shown as a deviation from the pre-industrial period 1871–1900.
Measurable effects
The strong warming is having an impact on many other climate variables in Switzerland. The zero-degree limit is rising significantly. As a result, the Alpine glaciers have lost over 60 percent of their volume since 1850. They are likely to have almost completely disappeared from the Alpine landscape by the end of the century.
The growing season in lowland areas now lasts several weeks longer than it did in the 1960s. As a result of warming, precipitation falls more often as rain than as snow. The number of days with snow has decreased significantly, especially in low-lying areas.
What’s coming to us
A further progression of climate change will have mostly a quick-start on japan sole proprietorships negative effects. Switzerland is threatened by more extreme weather with drier summers, heavier rainfall, more hot days awb directory and winters with little snow. In mountainous regions, additional risks such as rockfalls and mudslides as well as the loss of biodiversity are to be expected.