The city of Buenos Aires it cannot live up to its name. The capital argentina has boiled like never before. Its inhabitants, and those of the populous periphery, expected this so-called miracle to fall from the sky rain. The storms have not arrived (just a few showers and a sporadic coolness) and the sun has risen again as a threat at the gates of autumn. Something like this hadn’t happened in this country for 35 years.
The hottest summer on record, with temperatures beyond 40 degrees in March, has been stamped on the skin of men, women and children. ones tiny parasitic insectsknown as ‘trips‘, and which are generally found in animals and birds, they chose humans during the peaks of the heat wave. There were no repellents to deter them. But this is a collateral issue of an unprecedented summer that throughout the territory has caused forest fires, the melting of glaciers and, due to the lack of precipitation, one huge crop loss which has put the food security of an agro-exporting country at risk.
The scientific community assures that the climate crisis she is no stranger to these scorching temperatures. The reduction in availability of water has aggravated the impact of the even.
Fall in exports
THE you sell wheat i military they will fall 28% compared to 2022 levels. The difference between the January 2022 harvest and the flamboyant start of 2023 is 61%. The initial calculations at the general level are of one loss of 19 billion dollars which are equivalent to three points of GDP. Crop health, says a report, is the worst in the last four decades. The desired macroeconomic stability of the Peronist Government has been shattered.
Specialists claim that the phenomenon of drought is, in addition, a consequence of cold pacific current, known as La Niña, and which has been repeated for three years. Climate change is no stranger to this recurrence.
The Administration of Alberto Fernández has decided to reduce the tax burden of agro-export sector. “We have the responsibility to work together to bring relief to the countryside and help them overcome this climatic circumstance”, said the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has granted Argentina a modest benefit in the face of exceptional circumstances: the quarterly goal of reserves of Banc Central will be reduced by 3,000 million dollars due to the drought and the drop in exports.
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— Journalists x the Planet (@PxP_LAC) March 2, 2023
A torrid city like never before
The Argentine monoculture world laments the losses in the fields. The great city speaks of other sufferings. Doctor in Atmospheric Sciences, Carolina Vera, member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations, recalled that it was truly strange that the city of Buenos Aires suffered temperatures above 34 in the summer degrees. This has become part of the summer normal. “The situation breaks all records”, says José Luis Stella, of the National Meteorological Service (SMN). There have been days with 10 degrees more than expected.
In accordance with World Weather Attribution (WWA)he climate change made an episode like the heat wave that has suffocated the Argentinians approximately 60 times more feasible whatever happens, and 1.4° C warmer. The electrical system it has been tested on the most intense days. There have been no shortage of power cuts. There are neighborhoods in the city of Buenos Aires where they have been without electricity for more than two weeks. School activity started with almost 40 degrees and the schools were not prepared for this situation. The mayor’s office of the capital was only right to recommend to parents that their children enter the classrooms with bottles of water.
So extreme was the phenomenon that in the maps of maximum temperature anomalies they had to add two scales of gray to the red color! ???? pic.twitter.com/QghZuDOi7t
— Greenpeace Argentina (@GreenpeaceArg) March 13, 2023
A blazing future
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World Weather Attribution has warned: high temperatures are here to staythey will be more frequent and, a little worse, more intense (the feverish days of this endless heatwave will soon be remembered as ‘cool’). Climatologist Vera also expects worse things due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases. The dizziness, passed out i nausea al public transportthe stomach aches i of capdrowsiness, the mood swingsthe lack of concentration, will therefore be more frequent among the inhabitants. Even autumn is approaching with warm temperatures that will make spring blush.
Many Argentines are beginning to take note of this new normality. Three months before the heat felt like fire, Greenpeace had done a survey in this country. 68% of those interviewed expressed their concern about the climate crisis and related it to deforestation (77%), excess garbage (60%) and the use of fossil energies (49%). The livestock and extensive agriculturepointed out by specialists as the matrix of disturbances in Argentina, was not among the concerns.