Experts: Europe Heating Up Faster

September 12, 2007 By ARIEL DAVID, Associated Press Writer Experts: Europe Heating Up Faster (AP)

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, left, shakes hands with Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, Deputy Director-General David Harcharik during the opening ceremony of the National Conference on Climate Change, at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Wednesday Sept. 12, 2007. Italian experts said global warming is proceeding faster in Europe than in the rest of the world and that the Mediterranean could become a stagnant sea. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

(AP) -- Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea, Italian experts said Wednesday.



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