Editorial: The climate change battle

Climate change, or even better the climate crisis, as the prime minister describes it, is undoubtedly here, at our doorstep. One need no further eyewitness accounts or scientific affirmations to understand that.

It is glaringly obvious that from now on and until global warming is checked, hot summers with relentless heat waves and disastrous wildfires will be followed by tropical autumn storms that are capable of dragging along everything in their path. They will be followed by extremely heavy winters with unprecedented snow storms and many needs, followed by unstable springs with vicissitudes in temperatures, and morning freezing conditions that can harm trees at the time of their productive flowering

The recent autumn storm code-named "Ballos" clearly confirmed that.

As Athens University Professor of Dynamic Tectonics, Applied Geology, and Management of Natural Disasters Efthimis Lekkas explained, between 14 October and the dawn of 15 October the volume of rain that fell on the Kifisos river basin, from Kryoneri to Faliro, was more than 30 million tonnes!

The entire country experienced the extreme weather conditions wrought by the Mediterranean typhoon, which experts believe will be an increasingly common phenomenon in the future, with repeated extreme weather conditions and dangerous situations.

According to Professor Lekkas, the Mediterranean constitutes the umbilical cord of the planet's climate. Due to its position, it is extremely sensitive to changes in the climate, so it will face ever more frequent, more intense, and more extreme weather phenomena, which in turn will result in crises that are complex and pose a danger to human activity.

The common conviction is that the coming decades will be full of tough, repeated...