Natural Exploration

The beginning of this century is the changing climate, but the discussion becomes serious when it comes to extreme weather financial bills in each government's annual budget. How true is the extreme weather, and how salty are the financial bills?

We're only in the first half of the year and the forces of nature are striking hard. Australia is the largest nature victim in 2020, where extreme heat caused catastrophic fires on the continental island. On January 1st of this year, hundreds of tourists and locals were evacuated from eastern cities because of the massive fires involving Australia. The year 2020 found Australia with eight million hectares burned as a result of more than 200 extreme fires on the remote continent, which forced the Australian army and navy to intervene to save the lives of at least 1,000 isolated people on the island of Malakota.

The damage caused by fires in Australia is estimated to be catastrophic not only by financial value but also environmentally, as millions of hectares of land and forests were burned, releasing tons of dioxide-carbon in the atmosphere. The picture is further blacked by the loss of about half a million animals and birds from the rare Australian fauna. After 3-4 months in the flames of hell and as in a diabolical game, nature again strikes Australia with the flooding of early shorts as a result of heavy rainfall, the most intense of the last 30 years. Overwhelming and massive flooding threatened the lives of millions of inhabitants in countries like New South Wales and Queensland, who remained for 4-5 days in the water kingdom.

In the last days of January, East Africa was found occupied by desert locust colonies, seriously jeopardizing food safety for some countries on the poor continent. The cartels traveled from Yemen to Ethiopia and later to Eritrea and Somalia, wiping out pastures and damaging hundreds of thousands of local farmers. According to the United Nations organization, billions of locusts migrated to Kenya, destroying acres of green vegetation. The solution to this occupation should be quick, so that the rainy season, which begins for Africa in March, does not allow further breeding of this dangerous insect for the agro-bricity of these regions. Thus, dozens of planes performed pesticide sprays on invading colonies of billions of insects.

Indeed, the month of April brought tremendous rainfall right into the eastern areas of Africa, causing massive flooding in some countries. Over 260 North Africans have lost their lives, while hundreds of others fled their homes, seized by river floods and landslides. Clouds and floods continued in these areas of Africa even in the first half of May, further deepening the lack of food security, safety of life, and poverty for the people of East Africa.

Extreme weather conditions did not save Indonesia either; capitals in Jakarta passed the change of years in conditions of vicious floods and floods, where 40 people lost their lives and hundreds were rescued from civilian emergency teams. According to the Indonesian Agency of Climate, such rainfall and floods had not been monitored for nearly 150 years of climate surveillance in Indonesia and the islands of Java or Bali.

The United States of America, after a severe winter, also faced the first days of March with tornado storms of force 4, where wind speed reached up to 280 km perh. Several tornadoes hit several countries, such as Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, and Missouri, causing 25 lives loss, over 300 people damaged, and hundreds of destroyed buildings, with a $1 billion financial bill.

Nature's explanation did not spare the Old Continent, where the British islands and the western coast of Europe faced the Atlantic storms for several months. By early spring Britain and part of Western Europe faced almost every weekend with extreme weather events, causing populations in these regions to hold their breath for 2-3 months. They have marked their impact on the storms of Syria and Dennis, which, in addition to Britain, occupied for nearly 10 days all countries of the West Coast, risking the lives of millions of Europeans and putting the governments of these countries in trouble.

In the normality of June, the sky is clear and rainfall is missing, but it is not happening in Albania. The day begins clear, darkens suddenly by storms that bring showers of rain and hail but still clears the night and night. This is not the Mediterranean climate that Albanians have lived through centuries, these are weather and climate deviations that we watch more and more daily, we face, even paying expensive bills for our fragile economy.

Albania is not a lonely island, it is part of the harsh confrontation between Earth and its atmosphere, which, in fact, was designed to protect the Earth itself. All of this is not just a month or a year's weather cover, it's not even a decade-old climate freak, it's another face that nature is showing humanity, which has modified the global environment to the cell.

We've modified our environment in the worst way possible. But will we be able to change the climate in favor of our future, or will we have to clone the earth on another planet? /A2/