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Athens Acropolis closes as earliest-ever heatwave sweeps Greece • FRANCE 24 English

  • June 12, 2024



Athens Acropolis closes as earliest-ever heatwave sweeps Greece • FRANCE 24 English

outside the Acropolis in Athens the ticket office is shuted two words are lit up stay safe during the hottest hours of the day on Wednesday the country’s most visited site was closed with temperatures expected to reach 43° the first heat wave of the year in Greece coming early and hard closing schools in some regions and putting areas around the capital on high alert for fires tourists however were unperturbed it’s very hot just have frequent w a lot of water but your your country is beautiful so I’m here to make the most of it no matter what the weather in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea a country is already on fire Cyprus three villages were evacuated in the paos region as helicopters and firefighters work to extinguish the Flames further west in the Mediterranean on the island of mayca floods on Tuesday heavy rains grounded Plains and brought the Palmer airport to a Hal and it was a similar story on the Spanish mainland in Mera there were reports that between 60 to 65 lers fell per square meter in just an hour drastically impacting farmers and their crops these heat waves fires and floods came less than a week after experts sounded the alarm of an 80% chance the annual average global temperature will exceed 1.5° above pre-industrial levels in the next 5 years what is clear is that the Paris agreement human target of 1.5° C is hanging on a thread it’s not yet dead um but it’s hanging by a thread she added that in this new record-breaking era our planet should expect to see more oppressive heat waves that jeopardize livelihoods and natural ecosystems on land and along our coasts

The Athens Acropolis, Greece’s most visited tourist site, was closed to the public during the hottest hours of Wednesday as the season’s earliest-ever heatwave swept the country, prompting school closures and health warnings. The culture ministry had said the UNESCO-listed archaeological site would close from midday to 5:00 pm (0900 to 1400 GMT), with temperatures expected to reach 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday and Thursday.
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20 comments

  3. How is there any hope of stopping warming at 1.5C? That would not only require us to stop all industry and electric use worldwide immediately but also fails to take into account that the climate lags behind emissions by several decades. It will continue warming until at least 2050 even if there is zero pollution starting today.

  7. It's June in Scotland and an overcast 15 degrees Celsius(6 degrees first thing in the morning).It's officially our summer time. GW seems to have missed us out.

  11. Why people travel to such hot areas at the worst time of year is beyond belief! Don’t complain or raise global warming these places are always hot. A few degrees higher does not spell catastrophe. Stay away if you don’t like the heat!

  13. It is plain and simple , as long as there is oil there will be greed. Greed will not go away and 100% renewable energy will never happen in my lifetime

  15. Ooooh climate change! Bring on the bots. You do know NOT ONE of the predictions ever made about it have come true. But don’t let FACTS get in the way of your propaganda 😂😂😂

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