The process of climate change in the Canaries over coming decades is "totally irreversible", and will cause an increase in temperatures regardless of what we do. This is a plain statement of fact, according to the Met Office, from analysis of the latest joint AEMET-Government studies on climatological prediction. The Government side, for its part, emphasized that it is no longer a case of putting anything off, but adapting to the inevitable.
The effects to come can be summarized as follows:
- unprecedented temperature highs
- rise of annual mean temperature
- warming of the hitherto cool coastal waters
- increase in sea level
- more frequent tropical storms
- heatwaves
Main areas of concern in practical and strategic terms are torrential rains, which can cause flooding and overflowing of barrancos; gale force winds; heatwaves in summer and intense calimas in winter (January to March); meteorological depressions and tropical storms (like Delta).
The actual expected rise of up to 2 degrees C doesn't sound like a lot, but the effects will be considerable, it appears.
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