They warn that climate change will scare off tourism in Spain’s south and southeast

“It will be impossible to be in the south and inland, you will burn,” he says. He warns that the climate of North Africa will be in regions like Andalusia. Costa Blanca has been saved for now “as temperatures are more flexible”.

“Because it is impossible to sleep in the south or inland, people will tend to go north for better rest,” the expert adds.

no more worries

But not only experts warn of a tourist problem. There will also be one increased anxiety, irritability, irritability. These are the consequences of heat waves as intense as what we suffered in Spain this summer, according to alert scientists from the Carlos III Institute of Health (ISCIII), the public research institution that promotes, finances and manages it. biomedical and health research in the country. There is a relationship between the increase in mental health problems and the climate crisis.

Scientist Cristina Linares, who attended a conference in Elche devoted to thinking about the cities of the future and the climate emergency in cities, warns the Alicante newspaper INFORMACIÓN.

“Imagine you can’t sleep at night because very high minimum temperature, Well, all this fatigue accumulates day by day and causes people’s psychological state to change,” explains the scientist. Because of this, people become more irritable and experience anxiety issues because fatigue builds up and can even lead to a psychotic break, Linares says.

Climate emergency at hand

Climate change is a very worrying thing. According to Carlos III Institute of Health scientists, the extreme temperatures we experienced this summer are expected for 2032. The climate emergency was already brought up a decade ago..

Heatwaves take a serious toll on health, and the greatest example of this is this summer of extreme temperatures. 42-day heat waves. In fact, the number of deaths attributable to temperatures has nearly quadrupled, from the 1,300 recorded on average to 4,500. “Thermal extremes cost lives”Warns Julio Díaz, another ISCIII scientist who attended the conference in Elche.

There are studies in Japan and the USA that associate heat waves with a temperature. highest number of suicidesthey warn. “All that changes if you are someone who is already decompensated because you have a mental illness, or if you are taking a medication that changes your sweating mechanism that does not make you thirsty, and you need to be reminded that you almost have to drink to stay hydrated. Your internal mechanisms and can lead you to a psychotic outbreak, this should be taken very seriously”, says Cristina Linares.

more alcoholism

In fact, Linares explains, in hospitals increase in people with alcohol problems. “When temperatures rise, people consume more alcohol with the risk of abuse,” the scientist warns. Additionally, those who experience extreme weather events such as floods or even storms also experience mental problems such as anxiety and post-traumatic stress.

“Let’s start put the toolsLet’s take action against climate change; We do not begin to make action plans, even though we know the consequences on health,” Linares complains.

even they increased accidents because people rest much worse and drive with less reflexes and more nervously. This was determined by experts from the Carlos III Institute of Health. “The Iberian Peninsula suffers from everything because when the Atlantic air gets wet and cold, or when dry air laden with Saharan dust particles enters us in the polar vortex, we will have to adapt to extreme situations,” he notes. scientific.

Julio Díaz warns that high temperatures exacerbate already-existing diseases. «A person with a neurological disease is particularly at risk because their hypothalamus does not have a sense of heat and therefore does not need to be hydrated, or in an elderly person rupture of an artery because someone basic mechanisms to combat there are the same enlargement, kidney or cardiovascular problems against the increase in temperature,” explains the scientist.

In fact, most deaths during heatwaves are not caused by heatstroke, “that’s a small percentage,” he notes. high temperatures accelerate the symptoms of pathologies already exist and those who suffer from them are dying for it. And be careful, because global warming is pushing maximum temperatures above expectations.