The environmental group Ecologists in Action are planning an educational campaign to warn of the dangers of Global warming to the Mediterranean coast. With nearly 50% of the population of Spain living in the Mediterranean coastal region, the impact of a 1-meter rise in sea levels could be devastating to human activity. Citing threats to the sea such as temperature rise, increase in salinity and increase in acidity alongside threats to the land such as loss of beaches, flooding in built-up areas and threats to the valuable tourism and fishing industries, their warning is clear. Only a 2%deg; rise in average temperatures is enough to cause this predicted rise in sea levels. To avoid the 2° warming, we must reduce CO2 emission levels to 50% of their 1990 levels. Given that Spain has seen a massive 49% increase in it’s CO2 emissions in the past years (1990-2004) (el ecologista, no53, pp21) it’s hard to imagine a scenario in which the mediterranean coast is not affected by the global trend towards higher temperatures. Read the whole article here: DIEZ AÑOS PARA EVITAR GRAVES PÉRDIDAS POR EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO EN EL LITORAL MEDITERRÁNEO
