Madeira needs a conversation about climate change. Part 2: Challenges up to the year 2075

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Madeira needs a conversation about climate change. Part 2: Challenges up to the year 2075

Part 1 of this article described how the climate in Funchal in 2075 will have an average temperature of 24ºC and the highlands will have half the current rainfall. A much warmer and drier climate, almost like that of Cape Verde today. The high temperature will be a threat to health, heat waves above 40ºC will especially kill the elderly. New diseases and more Dengue and Malaria mosquitoes will migrate to Madeira. Agriculture will need to adapt t…