This year 2023 was particularly challenging in terms of temperatures. June had already started strong and July and August were truly unbearable, we were constantly hit with heat waves, the Mediterranean temperature reached and maintained all-time highs (which in turn fueled events such as the recent Medicane, which surprised so many)… in short, a real hell, which, in addition to the discomfort it causes many of us, has devastating effects on the planet.

The warning lights went on a few years ago and since then we have not stopped getting reports confirming it The situation is getting worse every year., with records being broken in increasingly shorter time periods and associated with natural phenomena typical of what is becoming Earth’s new climatological conditions. And it’s no joke, the United Nations recently warned again about the incompatibility of our current pace of life and our survival as a species.

Politicized to the extreme, in one of the greatest examples of unconsciousness we witness todayClimate change is an increasingly indisputable reality. Yes, it is true that different analytical models lead to differences in the time frames and effects of global warming, but the overwhelming majority of the scientific community agrees that there is a problem, that its consequences can be dire, and that we should act to remedy the situation as much as possible .

In a number of signs pointing in the worst direction, NASA has confirmed this The summer of 2023 was the hottest on record. Obviously this affects the northern hemispheres as the south is currently in the last days of winter, but looking at a map published by the US space agency, we can see that the effects of global warming have also been seen in Antarctica, with areas seeing average temperatures of more than four degrees above the average of previous years.

On the same map we see that together with North Africa Spain is among the regions most affected by this summer, which broke historical highs since 1880, when temperatures began to be recorded. In other words, we experienced the hottest summer in almost 150 years, we did so after the summer of 2022, which was already quite difficult, and as the measurements show, we have a lot to worry about in Spain… and we should.

Images: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin