How will increasing temperatures in spain affect the country socially economically and enviromentally?
According to a new report by the EEA (European Environment Agency), Spain and Portugal will be most affected within the EU by coming climate change. Storms, floods and droughts are likely to become more and more frequent with a significant rise in temperature expected. The report notes that temperature in Europe has increased 0.95 degrees over the last 100 years. This increase has been greatest in the Iberian Peninsula and Western Russia. ‘Cold’ winters, which since 1960 have only occurred 1 in every 10 years are likely to become rarer, and will almost entirely disappear by 2080. In contrast, under high emission scenarios every second summer in Europe will be as hot or even hotter than 2003 by the end of the twenty-first century. In southern Europe, these changes are projected to occur even earlier (in Spain by the 2020s). The report claims that the extent and rate of change is ‘very probably’ beyond all natural variation in the last thousand years or more. The 1990’s was the warmest d
