Terrible: Hungary can become a wasteland very soon!
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Drought is posing an increasing challenge for Hungary: if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced quickly, by the end of the century, steppes could dominate a significant part of the country’s territory, while beech forests could disappear forever.
Spreading drought
As Infostart reports, Hungary’s climate has been changing dramatically in recent years, with droughts increasingly showing their serious consequences. In 2025, with the exception of March, every month brought less than average rainfall, with the areas between the Danube and Tisza rivers, east of Lake Balaton, and Békés County suffering from particularly severe drought.
Vegetation is also unable to keep pace: the frequent lack of rainfall not only reduces crop yields but may also transform the structure of the entire ecosystem in the long term. Researchers at ELTE’s Department of Meteorology are therefore investigating how forests and other plant communities may respond to increasing water shortages.
Models of future forests
Experts analysed the so-called forest drought index, which indicates which plant species can survive in a given area based on average temperatures and precipitation during the summer months. They developed three scenarios based on future greenhouse gas emissions.
The most optimistic scenario assumes radical, immediate emission reductions, in which case vegetation similar to today’s could survive until the end of the century. In contrast, if mitigation only began around 2040–2050, steppe—that is, forest steppe, which is more tolerant of drought—could already occupy a significant part of the Great Plain.
Oh, oh, you mean, a bit like “polar ice caps will melt by 2010,” “Manhattan will be under water through 2016,” or “island nations will be submerged before 2020,” “unless We Take Action Now™®©”?!?!
These are the same people who’ve been caught catastrophizing, doctoring data, and outright lying too many times to count, all while not being able to tell us with certainty what the weather is going to be like TOMORROW!
Yeah, give it up, guys. Nobody with more than a couple of brain cells is buying this garbage anymore. Earth’s climate changes constantly and the planet adapts quickly, even following sudden cataclysms such as meteor impacts. We don’t need a bigger government, fewer freedoms, and higher taxes to try to control the weather, thanks.