The European Environment Agency Aug. 18 released a report predicting increasingly severe weather problems in Europe over the next generation as a result of rising temperatures, calling the 1997 Kyoto Protocol the best first step to reversing some of the effects of the trend. The report, Impacts of Europe's changing climate: An indicator- based assessment, which is in line with much of the previous research into the subject, showed that temperatures were rising in Europe faster than they are rising worldwide. The report projected that average temperatures in Europe would rise by between and degrees Celsius this century, compared.