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Predicted effects of climate change on Spain:

Reduction in water resources of 5%- 14% before 2030.

Less snow.

Arid climate to spread to much of Andalucia & Castilla-La Mancha.

(El Pais)

http://www.iberianature.com%2Fmaterial%2Fspainclimates.html

Spain and Portugal will be most affected within the EU by coming climate change.

The temperature in Europe has increased 0.95 degrees over the last 100 years. This increase has been greatest in the Iberian Peninsula and Western Russia.

Climate change threat to Sierra Nevada Flora

Thymus serpylloides

Sierra Nevada selected for world climate change studies

The Park’s Observatorio de Cambio Global, in Sierra Nevada,has been selected by Unesco as one of ten sites in the world for its climate change studies. Temperatures are expected to rise by 2 degrees in the next 40 years with a fall in rainfall of 10%, reducing significantly the amount of snow with serious effects on the ski industry, irrigation and biodiversity. El País

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The Sierra Nevada is one the most vulnerable sites in Europe to climate

change.

Where is it?

Why is Sierra Nevada so

vulnerable to climate change?

EUROPE

AFRICA

Because of its positionBecause of its position

MEDITERRANEANATLANTIC

And between the Atlantic and the MediterraneanAnd between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean

Between Europe and Africa..Between Europe and Africa..

Pyrenean glaciers melting fast 2

The glaciers on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees are melting fast. Total surface area dropped from 1779 hectares in 1894 to 290 in 2000, representing a fall of 85% in of surface area. 52% of this occurred between 1980 and 2000 and 30% between 1991 and 2001.

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2004

Perdido Mountain glacier in Huesca .

(Greenpeace)

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