Global Warming

 What is global warming?

Greenhouse gases have a growing impact on everyday life around the world. We take a tour of science to explain what exactly global warming is causing climate change and what its consequences are.

The year 2020 was the hottest year in Spain, in Europe and worldwide since records exist and, on a global scale, the first half of 2021 finished among the six warmest. Last August, Spain reached its historical maximum with 47.4 ºC and Europe with 48.8 ºC. This increase in temperatures could reach an increase of 2.2 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels in 2040 and 3.8 in 2100, according to the analysis of a group of more than 80 scientists in the report Climate and environmental change in the Mediterranean basin , carried out by the Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MedECC) network.

Los glaciares se derriten a un ritmo nunca visto anteriormente, el nivel del mar aumenta debido al deshielo, las selvas se secan y la fauna y la flora luchan para sobrevivir en un escenario de cambios vertiginosos y complejos que a menudo impactan gravemente en la biodiversidad.

In fact, for the first time since records began, the conclusions of a recent study published last March have challenged estimates of climate evolution by revealing that the capacity of the world's largest forest to absorb carbon from the atmosphere is reduced to such an extent that it could already be releasing more carbon than it stores.