Spain's Environment Ministry Projects Toasty Madrid Temps By 2100 - 50C (122F) - Reuters

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MADRID - Summer temperatures in Madrid could soar to 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) by the end of this century if global warming continues unchecked, an Environment Ministry report said on Tuesday.

Rainfall in southern Spain, large areas of which are already at risk of desertification, could fall by as much as 40 percent. The ministry wants to persuade the governments of the 17 autonomous regions, who have wide powers over environmental policy, to prepare for global warming and to help stop it.

Spain, struggling to contain emissions from an economy growing annually at 4 percent, is one of the countries that climate change will hit hardest and where carbon emissions are growing fastest.

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Spanish greenhouse gas emissions were 49 percent above 1990 levels in 2004, the highest of any backer of the Kyoto agreement, and it has to cut them to a 15 percent increase by 2008-12 under its commitment to the international accord.

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Giving a whole new meaning to the cliche "Sunny Spain" . . .

[Phredicles]

1. But, but... Dennis Miller said global warming's a sham;

and he's so smart: just ask him.:eyes:

[Shallah Kali]

2. The Rain in Spain Stays Away From the Plain.....

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