Week 8 - Global Warming

For this week’s field trip I am visiting Barcelona which is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea. The year is 7010 and there have been many changes. The temperatures have risen which directly impacts the health and safety of its citizens. There was a heat island effect that occurred. This heat increase directly affected temperatures together with more intense solar radiation. In addition, there are an increased amount of heat waves. The beach of San Sebastia disappeared from a terrible flood. This was caused from irregular and torrential rain. The sea levels have risen and completely wiped out the Catalonia region and all its ports. This included some of Europe’s largest ports including Tarragona and the Port of Barcelona. Because of the gas-fired heating systems and illegal burning of industrial materials over the years, the anthropogenic effects include harming human health and the eutrophication of water and damage to natural ecosystems, buildings, and crops. There were natural contributions to global warming which caused rising temperatures, hot days, and torrid nights. This resulted in reduced availability to water from droughts. There is evidence global warming occurred here. Barcelona tried to put a plan in place to help reduce all these drastic changes, but ultimately failed. Businesses tried to adopt new measures to reduce emissions and transition to local green energy by encouraging responsible energy consumption. The city also tried to adopt measures that were in line with the COP21 Paris Climate Change agreements. Considering the next 5,000 years from now, I predict that most of Barcelona will be gone, whether it be from the rising temperatures and drought or the rising sea levels.

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