- Mount Fuji has experienced a loss of more than a month’s worth of winter days each year in the past decade due to global warming.
- A study conducted by a US-based climate organization indicates that the city of Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture added an average of 35 winter days above zero degrees Celsius.
- More than half of the 57 Japanese cities studied saw an increase of at least two weeks in winter days above freezing annually.
- The report highlights severe implications of these warmer winters, including potential water shortages and an increase in disease-carrying pests.
- Climate Central emphasizes the urgent need to reduce reliance on fossil fuels to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
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