How Climate Change Now Affects Our Travels

This is the second post of my three -part series related to climate change. The first is dealt with the changes I have witnessed and tested in 50 years of international travel.

In this post, I focus on climate change ways that affect our journey around our world.

A journey of complex wind

Hot conditions make the air less dense, and the aircraft need to be faster to remove the lift. Makes it difficult for high temperature aircraft to descend from the ground, and even Stop the tech office.

In a recent incident, airlines flying from Las Vegas had to reduce the number of passengers, remove goods and lower their fuel levels.

The effects of climate change can also create strong turmoil, which can cause stress and discomfort. Last May, a Singapore Airlines flight caused severe riots, in which an emergency landing was forced when a passenger died and 83 were injured. In July, on a flight from Spain to Uruguay, severe riots put 40 passengers to the hospital.

Climate change research shows that riots will deteriorate due to the increase in carbon dioxide levels in the environment. A 2023 study published in the Geo Physical Research Letters journal states that the riot of severe or more clear winds increased by 55 % between 1979 and 2020.

The need to be admitted to the hospital is rare relatively rare. According to the US Federal Aviation Administration, there were 20 reports of serious injuries in 2023.

The plans disrupted

Records with global temperatures and their complexities, and more often storms have created a travel cancellation all over the world.

Greece – where travel and tourism accounts for about 15 % of their total domestic products – more than 2,000 people have had to evacuate after wildfire on the island of Rhodes. Global Economic Forum. Athens had to close its own high attractiveness, acroopolis after the temperature reached 113 degrees.

“The climate crisis is already here,” said Greek Prime Minister Kyrgyz Matotaks.

Many places of hot climatic holidays are becoming hot weather places. And in response, tourists are rapidly choosing tours of cool countries, including the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland and Bulgaria.

Affected time

In addition to choosing tourists cold places, rising temperatures mean that more tourists are traveling in spring and autumn instead of summer, so passengers can no longer trust the shoulder seasons.

Has already been 10 % Drop According to the European Travel Commission, the number of people planning to visit the Mediterranean in June November.

The weak coastal area

Coastal More than 80 % of US tourism, and more than 60 % of European holidays and revenue. The islands and coastal places are watching the water level, forest fires and heat waves eliminate the cities and force tourists to escape.

“The lower parts of the Maldives, including the Maldives, can be uninhabited,” said Elsa Gary, a travel editor and sustainable tourist expert, said. Report Through the fearless travel. “The places we like from the sea because of their contacts are in great danger, including Venus and Amsterdam.”

Warming water affects coral bleach, and increasing drought is already affecting the Caribbean tourism capacity.

Unexpected and powerful storms put risks to destinations like Miami, New Orleans and the Caribbean. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, the Caribbean attracted about 30 million visitors in 2022, and its economy relies more on travel and tourism than any other region.

According to the University of Cambridge, most of the resorts in the Caribbean are coastal, 60 % of them are at risk of increasing the level. According to the World Meteorological Association, they are seeing about 10 percent rising from the global average in the lower parts.

According to the ASEAN Post report, “when the main stimulus for visitors to the region depends on local scenes, biological diversity, heritage and cultures, the survival of this sector depends on the ability to maximize and protect these natural resources.”

The most famous coastal floors in Southeast Asia are also suffering from environmental damage to factors, including pollution and overturrum. According to the Harvard School of Public Health, Thailand’s Maya Bay, Malaysia’s Sipden Island and the Boraki island of the Philippines are all affecting, and some countries in the region are now closing the most worst areas to eliminate tourist destinations.

Ground damage, shortage of snow

According to the German Federal Environment Agency, large -scale land losses are already eating on the Mediterranean beaches. According to DW News reports, there is now half of the huts in a beach in Meloorka that it has.

Sking and Snobwarding are at the top of the list of many visits, and cold weather is important for the economies of many local cities and regions around the world. The ALPS region attracts about 120 120 million tourists a year, but the rising global temperature has reduced the seasonal ice cover in ALPS in the last 50 years.

Can these climate change problems be solved? In the last post of the series, we will focus on how much passengers affect climate change, and passengers can do about improving our behavior to help our planet.

I recently talked about travel and climate change in the New York Society for moral culture. See the conversation on my YouTube channel I remember those places: Travel Talk with Lee Len. Also, see my award -winning travel pod cast, The places I remember with Lee Lane.