study<\/a> conducted by the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich University, the future climate conditions of Turkish cities will resemble those of much hotter places. Average temperature in Ankara may be like today\u2019s Tashkent; Istanbul will resemble Rome; Adana will be more like Nicosia.<\/p>\nTurkey is the world\u2019s 20th largest emitter of greenhouse gases and with its growing economy and energy needs, emissions are set to rise significantly.<\/p>\n
Almost every key point of concern expressed by the IPCC report directly apply to today\u2019s Turkey. However, climate change and its likely impact does not yet seem to be a concern for many.<\/p>\n
As for \u201ceating less meat to save the Earth\u201d pleas; they are particularly bound to fall on deaf ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The latest report by a United Nations body urging countries to curb meat consumption to help stop the devastating impacts of climate change has received little political, media and public attention in Turkey. Timing was somewhat unfortunate as the country is getting ready to celebrate Eid ul-Adha (Kurban Bayram\u0131), one of the most important festivals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29508,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions\/29508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}