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_ink_about 1 hour ago
I really like what Spain is doing recently. If it weren't for climate change, I'd consider moving there.
Al-Khwarizmi19 minutes ago
Much of Spain is indeed getting very unpleasant in the summer with climate change, but in the north there are still regions that are quite fine at the moment. Where I am, we recently beat the all time temperature record with 35 degrees, but that was a single day. Most days these weeks it isn't going over 25, and I don't think we hit 30 in June except for that single day and maybe one other day.

The problem is that the right is poised to win the next election and will probably undo all the policies you like. They're pretty much against everything that has been done in the last 7 years. I still have some hopes that Sanchez might clinch another term because he's a political survivor, but prospects are not great.

littlecranky6733 minutes ago
Canary Islands are part of Spain and probably unaffected from climate change - we have 19-22°C all year round. If it raises to 25° still pretty livable.
b40d-48b2-979e28 minutes ago

    and probably unaffected from climate change
No place is unaffected.
Daishiman26 minutes ago
Islands are extremely vulnerable to climate change all over, as they are completely dependent in near-term precipitation for all their water (no rivers, no aquifers).
littlecranky674 minutes ago
No rivers and no water is reality here for quite a while already. The islands rely a lot on desalination, and there is a big EU-funded project going on to create a desalination plant that not only is used to supply tap water, but the water basin of a new hydroelectric plant [0]. Desalination pretty much solves water issues, IF you have the energy (ideally renewable).

[0]: https://renewablesnow.com/news/construction-starts-on-200-mw...

Xenoamorphous42 minutes ago
The current government has little chance to get re-elected, and the next one will revert most of these decisions.
breppp8 minutes ago
You'd even like better the corruption they are trying to deflect from with their edgy foreign policy
emsign33 minutes ago
Great news for Spain. I hope more European countries wake up to what's going on.
ChrisArchitectabout 2 hours ago