Greece should brace for another scorcher of a summer, expert warns

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Weather events and patterns in the Mediterranean indicate that the region, including Greece, will experience a summer as hot if not hotter than the last, which brought successive heatwaves and raised the climate change alarm. 

"We are watching the evolution of [weather] events in Spain and other countries in the Mediterranean, which, we need to note, is basically a hotspot for global warming," Efthimios Lekkas, a professor of disaster management at Athens University and head of Greece's Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization, told state broadcaster ERT on Tuesday.

"Why is that? Because we have a desert to the south - with the exception of a few areas, this is what it is - and this stands in sharp contrast to what is happening in the northern Mediterranean, where systems are in a precarious balance," Lekkas said.

"There's a very high probability that we...

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