PARIS — That dream house in southern France that so many fantasize about is going to become uncomfortably hot in coming decades, according to new climate change projections Monday by the country’s national weather service.
Even if humanity manages to modestly reduce greenhouse gas emissions — which so far has only happened during a raging pandemic or a global recession — France as a whole is on track to heat up nearly three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by about 2070, Meteo France said in a report.
And if carbon pollution continues unabated, average annual temperatures across the nation will, by century’s end, soar 4.5C beyond that benchmark.
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