Jorge Tamayo, regional delegate of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) in the Community of Valencia, warns that by 2040, a rise in temperature of almost 1.8 to 2 degrees Celsius is guaranteed and could reach six degrees Celsius if no action is taken. Heat waves of up to 50 degrees can be experienced in Spain.
Tamayo appeared this Friday at Les Corts Valencianes’ special working commission on measures to prevent risks from strong storms, noting that the temperature will continue to rise regardless of the measures we are currently taking to mitigate the effects of climate change. The years 2030 and 2040 are due to the inertia of previous years.
“Whatever we do, we will now be exposed to higher temperatures for 20 years” because we live from what we’ve published before, and we’re talking about the time horizon most of us will live in,” he added.
That’s why Tamayo insists that “we should try to reduce these emissions” because of climate change. “This is not something that will happen, it is something that has already happened. and we will continue to do that and we have to try to mitigate that level”.
The expert points out that the climate is “clearly changing and we are observing it,” with the increase in average temperature, more intense precipitation. Tropical nights – above -20 degrees – went from about ten per year to almost all summer. -between 80 and 90 nights- and the temperature of the sea water also increased, according to Efe.
“It all has to do with the fact that there is more energy in the atmosphere and it makes phenomena more violent,” he explains, citing storm Gloria (January 2020), which was extraordinary due to sea storms, 8.5-metre waves (highest since 1956), inland Record rainfall in a hundred years in regions such as Ontinyent, with heavy snowfall in parts and gusts of wind exceeding 100 kilometers per hour.
According to Tamayo, there is a great deal of consistency between what has been observed so far and what the forecast models are telling us, namely that the temperature will rise and the forecasts, that heavier precipitation will also increase.
“If temperatures rise, it’s normal for adverse effects to continue to increase. “Globally, the planet will warm up, there will be more energy and more intense storms,” he said.
“Heat waves up to 50 degrees in Spain”
“Heat waves will be much more intense and We can start talking about 50 degree heat waves“In Spain,” he warns.
Note that last year temperatures in the Alaska region reached almost 40 degrees, and this Thursday it was 34 or 35 degrees in Lapland. “Something’s Happening Here”.
He adds that easing this situation depends on the implementation of the measures advocated by scientists, the implementation of protocols against climate change such as the Paris Agreement, and the reduction of greenhouse gases. The measures, in short, are “political, economic and technological”, Tamayo concludes.
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Source: Informacion
