The truth is my neighbours are very careless with their resources: 4% of Spain is covered with (wood) TREES, as against over 50% in Portugal. In extreme Northern Portugal there is a mountain (serra) called Gerês with a natural park both sides of the border. Past through the «portela do homem» border You can get a profile view of the mountain, portuguese on the one side, spanish on the other. If You get-up early enought You get to SEE THE BORDER as if a glass separated the two natural parks: Rain in the Portuguese side, where there are trees and no rain on the sanish side, where there are no trees. TREES make a BIG difference.
If You have any doubt abou the importance of trees on rain, go there and see it for yourself.

Rui, Lisbon,

God did it and you deserve it

Rick, London,

Just another harbinger of the soon coming of Jesus Christ.

Rick, Houston, Texas

Spain should consider educating its farmers in permaculture principals of farming and begin a massive reforestation program. Forests generate their own rain fall and in turn increase the amount of rain in the regions in which they are located. No small feat but the status quo doesn't seem to be working so well.

Conner, Scotland,

People in Europe want to fool themselves, and call what is happening to our planet Global Warming, well it is not global warming at all. The Godless Greed of 1/4 of the population is killing the world to support their greed and shameless luxury. They are using up the worlds resources at the fastest rate ever. While people are wasting water in Europe, Africa does not even have clean drinking water, clean drinking water is being used to water the grass. people in the west are eating so much it is likely to kill them, the Africans is starving. The big logging companies are cutting down trees to make the designer cabinets for European kitchens. The depleation of fish stocks by over fishing, has nothing to do with global warming either, its all greed. Polution is not Global warming it is also about greed. People want to show off their wealth in their big Cars that they dont need. In Matthew 24 it speaks about the times in which we live today, and the outcome. We shall see worldwide Famine.

daphne kenward, cambridge, uk

This has of course nothing to do with climate change. Nigel Lawson has just published a book stating the EU is over-reacting on climate change and that people who spent their life studying the subject are scaremongerers. I therefore conclude that he and the lovely Nigella will be responsible enough to stand at the back of the food queues when there is a problem... and offer a large share of their respective incomes to mitigate the effects this will have in other parts of the world.
If crops fail again this year in the world's principals' agricultural areas we shall see how wise such iterations are. There is a good chance that climate change will pit Nation against Nation and even generation against generation or in Spain apparently region against region. Why are people prepared to take such a risk? Haven't we taken enough risks with our banking systems Mr Lawson? It is in everybody's interest that the artic oil remains untappable, this will avoid a conflict between certain nations.

Esther Phillips, Leatherhead,

i am witnessing this every day in valencia.almost every house has a swimming pool and every house has lawns to water.i have seen people turning their automatic watering system on while its heavily raining.somebody must teach these people how not to waste water.
it seems to me that lack of education and lack of care for the society is extremely damaging and water is one of those.
lack of respect for others is a big problem here in spain never mind the environment.

ebbi britt, valencia,