Scorching Summer in Spain

Special guest Alfonso Soria, environmental activist, joins Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez to discuss the very hot summer in Spain. The summer of 2022 has been very tough in Spain with the effects of climate change having become more obvious and more extreme than any previous year. This has been the case not only in Spain, but also across Europe.

This video was recorded on September 7th, 2022, and published on September 11, 2022.

Some of the topics discussed:

• The summer weather in Spain has been really really hot for half the summer with 42 days in heatwave. This is unprecedented and is three times the average over the last decade.
• Spain has been immersed in a drought since last autumn, but this summer has become extreme with rivers running very low reaching critical levels. This has driven different wildlife departments to rescue fish populations and take them to alternate locations where water is more abundant.
• The 2022 wildfire season has been really dramatic with five times the average surface burned in the previous 15 years.
• Marine heatwaves are happening more often with the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea reaching 5 to 6 degrees centigrade above normal. This has driven severe coastal storms to occur earlier than normal causing severe damage.
• and much more. . .

Links:

• AMES Rios con Vida (Link to English Translation via Google Translate)

• Salmonids (Wikipedia)

• State Meteorological Agency (Spain)

• Toddler dies after being hit by giant hailstone in Spain - CNN

• Spain’s Per Capita Emissions

• Support for fossil fuels almost doubled in 2021

• Invisible killer’: fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds

Special Guest:

• Alfonso Soria - An Environmental Activist who was educated and worked as a veterinarian for approximately 8 years before becoming an air traffic controller in Madrid, Spain.

Regular Panelists:

• Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP26 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: Free Music Archive
• License: BY-NC 4.0

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