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You don't need to go to South America, Asia or middle East - it's happening in Europe and no one seems to notice. Look at Portugal and Spain, it's becoming a d
by libertine 9y ago
You don't need to go to South America, Asia or middle East - it's happening in Europe and no one seems to notice.
Look at Portugal and Spain, it's becoming a desert - the day of the cold wave the south of Portugal and Spain had the same temperatures of some country's in Africa.
- IntronExon 9y agoPeople notice, but they feel helpless to stop it. Nobody wants to dwell on their impending doom, which ironically hasten their doom in this case.
- libertine 9y agoThey don't understand how bad it is, specially the government. For example, I don't understand why water intensive cultures are still being allowed. The smell that comes from animal farms is so bad because there are no more black water pools - they can't even illegally dump it to rivers because there are no rivers to carry it. It's getting beyond serious, this coming summer will result in the death of animals and ecosystems.
- thaumasiotes 9y ago> the south of Portugal and Spain had the same temperatures of some countries in Africa Tropical Africa, or are you saying the temperature in the south of Spain was comparable to the temperature in Morocco fourteen kilometers away?
- libertine 9y agoI'm saying it had the same temperature (o was warmer even) then some parts of the north of Africa - not just Morocco: http://images.meteociel.fr/im/8481/temp_eur2_crn3.png http://images.meteociel.fr/im/8481/temp_eur2_crn3.png
- narag 9y agoSpain mainland is separated from Africa by a mere 14 km strait, so no wonder temperature is similar, not talking about Canary Islands that are like a thousand km further to the south. Southwest mainland is becoming a desert indeed, but that's nothing new. Most classic spagetti westerns were filmed there. It's Sahara crossing the sea and a good thing for "plastic sea" (greenhouses). Almería provides several vegetables harvests a year that our European neighbourgs appreciate very much. Just 200km west, you have permanent snow and big woods.
- libertine 9y agoUh, neither Spain or Portugal has ever had the same climate has the north of Africa - not at least in the recorded history. Here's an example of the 27th of February: http://images.meteociel.fr/im/8481/temp_eur2_crn3.png http://images.meteociel.fr/im/8481/temp_eur2_crn3.png
- mseebach 9y agoClimate != weather. I'm sure you can find plenty of examples in recorded history when those areas had roughly the same weather.
- libertine 9y agoI know the difference - but when a pattern of similar weather is noticed in the past 5-10 years, it's more than just weather, I believe it's climate. What worries the most isn't how warm or cold it guets, it's precisely how dry it is.