Climate Change
How will it affect
Murcia Region?
Murcia region is next to the
Mediterraneam sea.
Murcia Region
Mediterranean Sea
Mar Menor (Small sea)
The Mar Menor or Small Sea.
Specially Protected Zone
• The lagoon has been designated
Specially Protected Zone of
Importance for the Mediterranean by
the United Nations.
The lake has an area
of 170 square kilometres
Mediterranean Sea
1970
2010
During the last century the Earth's
average temperature rised 0.7 º C, in
Spain this figure is doubled. 1.5 º C
The future could be bleak.
Just a few buildings would remain of La
Manga del Mar Menor, if it is covered over by
the Mediterranean Sea.
When sea level rises one centimetre
one meter away beach.
Stop the emission of greenhouse
gases.
The basic idea here is that these images of
flooded resort hotels, parched farmlands,
and abandoned villages, half-buried in
sand, will inspire us to take action against
climate change.
If circumstances doesn’t change the land
would be flooded by the sea by 2100.
“Excessive heat causes the emission of
greenhouse gases is absorbed by
land and by sea, which increases its
volume by increasing the
temperature, causing sea level rise.
Furthermore, the des frozen ice mass
contributes to further raise sea level”.
• With current
conditions and
characteristics,
the sea level will
rise half a meter
between 2050 and
2100
• This increase in sea level would cause the
disappearance of 20 kilometers of land.
Greenpeace insist
that this could be
"images of the future,
but this can be
avoided.
• Greenpeace
considers La
Manga del Mar
Menor "a flagship
site for its natural
conditions, its
construction and
tourism resources"
The reality is that
beaches are
disappearing
• The comment from Greenpeace:
"We will continue to campaign against climate
change, because time is running out for taking
measures to prevent La Manga from becoming
submerged," said Mario Rodríguez,
Greenpeace's campaigns director in Spain. "To
try to solve specific problems by attacking the
messenger, whose only aim is to defend the
environment, is a wrong strategy, as well as
being unworthy and unfair."
Increasing temperatures will rise sea level.
The Mar Menor will desapear.