Meteorologist Marc Olefs explains in an interview what the drying out of the Grüner See has to do with climate change, why Europe will experience heavy rainfall and drought simultaneously, and why Donald Trump is no good excuse for investing less in climate protection.

According to a report by the EU Earth observation programme Copernicus, 2024 was the warmest year since records began in the mid-19th century. Warming across Europe has been progressing twice as fast since the 1980s as the global average. This makes Europe the fastest-warming continent on Earth. No continent is warming as rapidly as Europe. This is the finding of a new report by the EU Earth observation programme Copernicus. In 2024, at least 335 people in Europe died as a result of extreme weather events.

What this warming means for Europe and for Austria in particular is the subject of Julian Kern's conversation with Marc Olefs in the Profil interview!