Global warming bypasses Spain and North Africa

Global warming should lead to increased evaporation off the oceans and hence increased rainfall. Instead we read below of a record drought:

Spain's cities are so polluted that they cause 16,000 deaths every year. A European Commission report also said that 15 million people - a third of Spain's population - are at risk of cancer, heart problems and asthma as a result of the polluted air over Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and other major cities. According to one estimate, breathing the air in Madrid is equivalent to smoking 11 cigarettes a day.

The record levels of air contamination can partly be blamed on the ongoing and devastating drought - the worst since records began - and on sand-borne particles blown in from the Sahara Desert. Last year, a United Nations report said that Africa's deserts were poised to jump the Mediterranean and up to a third of Spain could soon become desert.

But there are also man-made causes for what has become known as the "grey beret" - the cloud of air pollution that hangs above the country's cities.... "After we clean the windows here, in two hours they're covered in black dust," Alfonso Herranz, a resident of the Madrid barrio of Plaza de Luca de Tena told Spain's El Pais newspaper. Pollution in the area exceeded safe levels on 124 days last year....

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