Feb/110
The Best Travel Destination
A great place to go on for a holiday get away is Spain. It is a place where many tourists would love to celebrate and experience adventure and it is full of mystery and surprises. But first, a traveler must understand why this country's climate is extremely diverse, and know the two main or the most populated and the most appealing cities in the land full of cultural inheritance.
The diversity of the climate in Spain is due to its geographical situation and orographic conditions. Orography means the study of formation and relief of mountains. The climate in this country is roughly divided into four areas and these are the continental Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean climate, oceanic climate and subtropical climate. Each of these climates is being experienced to different cities. The two most well known and the most populated cities are Madrid and Barcelona, although Spain is mainly consists of ten cities.
In the region of Madrid, it has a continental Mediterranean climate in which many tourists and local citizens experiences cooler winter that includes isolated instances of snowfalls and minimum temperatures, due to altitude. Summer in this city is usually hot with a temperature that reaches to 30 degrees Celsius or often to 40 degrees Celsius in July. The night temperature in this area tends to be cooler due to high altitude and dry climate, and the driest seasons is usually on summer and winter, with mostly rainfall occurs in autumn and spring.
Madrid, Spain also hosts the largest Plaza de Toros or bullring, in which bullfighting is most popular, it begins in March and ends in October. It is a great place for travel destination because bullfighting is held everyday during festivities of San Isidro, the patron saint of Madrid. There are also other local festivities that this city holds which centers mainly to there patron saints, that many tourists would visit and experience the great beliefs of Spanish people.
The second largest and populated city is Barcelona. It has a Mediterranean climate which is similar to Madrid's. This city is well known in recent times for the 1992 Summer Olympics, and an important cultural center and a major tourist destination due to its rich cultural heritage. It has seven beaches but the most frequently visited beaches and one of the largest and oldest among them are Sant Sebastia and Barceloneta beaches. These two beaches really attract many beach lovers around the world and definitely an amazing place for sight-seeing and relaxation.
There are many other cities that Spain is consists of, and each of them has certainly has its own unique and overwhelming features in which many tourists would eagerly want to go and witness each and every piece of happenings. The different tourists' attractions especially the local festivities and the amazing land marks are a major magnet for a great travel destination, and every traveler must make sure that they are prepared to experience the breath taking scenes and the marvelous places that this country has.
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Jun/100
The Great Lakes And Global Warming Will Result In Drastic Environmental Changes
A century worth of human innovation including the industrial revolution can wreck havoc to any environment that it comes into contact with. With leaps in scientific measurement we can now look at the world in completely new ways and a side effect of that is being able to look into the future with some certainty. Climate change is a hot topic along with its effects. The Great Lakes and global warming is a situation that will significantly change an entire region.
This area is already dealing with the deleterious affects of invasive species, and something like climate change will only act like fuel to a fire. Twenty percent of the world's fresh water comes from the Great Lakes, it is a major source of this finite resource and any depletion will have massive and widespread repercussions.
Spending time talking about how important the Great Lakes are cannot be cast aside. Drinking water, as important and essential it is, is not the only thing the lakes provide. The region gives a huge amount of hydroelectric power to surrounding areas and is a main waterway for shipping routes. In terms of nature, it is a hub for a number of plant and animal species.
All is not right in the great lakes region, however, as it has been subject to urban development over the past hundred years. This construction and urbanization has led to air and water pollution as well as habitat destruction due to the building up of cities along its shores. All of these issues make something as simple as increased temperatures potentially devastating.
Warming temperatures will increase the melting away of the ice cover that is already quite thin upon the lakes. This melting will result in an increased evaporation of the lakes themselves, bringing the water level down.
As recently as last year, the lake level of Lake Superior was at its lowest in seventy seven years and predictions for the future are estimating another three foot decrease. The effects of low water levels include restrictions to shipping and a concentration of pollutants which will damage the water quality greatly, as well as the industry for travel, leisure, and cruises.
Acting now to restore the Great Lakes region is imperative and already building steam in terms of enacting policy. The reality, however, is that the project will cost billions of dollars and last dozens of years. Antique sewage systems will need to be completely replaced and already polluted sediment will have to be cleaned. Wetland areas will need to be bulked up and restored so as to act as a natural barrier against invasive species.
Climate change is not just increased temperature and decreased water levels, it can wreck havoc on weather systems. It is proposed that within the region there will be more storms, as well as more drought seasons. This will increase pollution run off, it will act as a viral incubator and the lakes could be littered with dead zones. Dead zones are the result of algae overgrowth that creates oxygen free zones.
What does the future hold? It cannot be known with absolute certainty, but models have provided some statistics. Storms may increase by 25%, but with the temperature increases (ranging between two and four degrees), the water levels can drop up to eight feet!
The future may seem to hold a number of destructive elements, but they can be tempered by being proactive in the present and working to make the Great Lakes as great as they once were.
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