Europe Leading the Way?

The European State of the Climate report notes that, over the last 30 years, this continent has increased its temperature by twice the global average (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/02/europes-climate-warming-at-twice-rate-of-global-average-says-report). Between 1991 and 2021, European temperatures have warmed at an average rate of 0.5 of a degree Centigrade per decade. This has had notable effects on the continent's glaciers and the Greenland icecap. As climate change intensifies, Europe will increasingly be exposed to exceptional heat, wildfires, droughts, sea level rises, further ice melting etc. These 'extreme weather events' will have very profound effects on society, economies and ecosystems. Sadly, all this has been event for decades. Europeans can't say they weren't warned! Many of their leaders, however, have behaved as if climate change is a phenomenon resticted to distant lands.