Global warming affects the Mediterranean and will continue to do so until, according to recent scientific reports, it becomes one of the “most vulnerable” spots on the planet from climate change. Mediterrenian heats up faster of the rest of the planet and projections for this century. significant increase in temperatures even in climate crisis mitigation scenarios, clearly water resources and its impact on health your citizen.
These are the estimates of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, published within the framework of the recently published “Lancet Health and Climate Change Countdown” report. The published data is the result of collaboration. 120 experts analyzing the progress of climate change and its impact on health.
This report focuses on Europe and highlights the startling increases in health risks that continental countries are currently experiencing. increased exposure to extreme weather and climate events, Efe reported that the risk of transmission of infectious diseases, heat-related diseases and deaths caused by exposure to air pollution have increased.
Heatwaves skyrocketed in a decade
According to the report, exposure heat wave Increased between the first and second decades of the 21st century (2000-2009 – 2010-2019) an average of 57%, with increases of more than 250% in some areas.
As a result, the heat-related mortality rate 15 deaths per million people per year Every ten years between 2000 and 2020.
Another big problem is water: 55% of European regions faced water problems. summer droughts Extreme or exceptional between 2011 and 2020.
Droughts, floods and other extreme events caused record losses in 2021. 48,000 million euros, According to the news of the prestigious ‘Lancet’ magazine.
The problem is particularly sensitive in the Mediterranean.warming faster than the rest of the world and the climate change hotspot“, underlined the director of the earth sciences division of BSC-CNS, Francisco Doblas-Reyes.
Up to 8ºC warming in Spain and the Mediterranean
Forecasts of temperatures in Spain and the Mediterranean by 2100 suggest temperatures could rise by 2 degrees, and in the worst case, up to 8 degrees.
These are “particularly worrying numbers” water pressure It is in this area,” Doblas-Reyes stressed, speaking at the presentation of The Lancet report this week at Palau Macaya in Barcelona.
The other derivative is that there will be heat waves and high temperatures. more and more often which will affect the health of people in Spain, which currently has the highest life expectancy in Europe and a very elderly population.
Thus, according to Doblas-Reyes, The Mediterranean is one of the ‘most suffering’ regions of the planet With one of the warmest plantings recorded in history, some of the effects of climate change are already visible.
Increasing temperature facilitates transmission infectious diseases In the last century, there were very few entities in European latitudes.
Therefore, climatic suitability for contamination dengue fever Compared to the 1950s, it has increased 30% in the last decade, and the environmental risk of West Nile virus outbreaks increased by 149% between 1986 and 2020 in Southern Europe compared to the 1951-1986 period.
Full report: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01540-9/fulltext
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Source: Informacion
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