CAMAGÜEY.- The search for answers to the unknown has allowed humanity to climb ever higher but also more complex levels of life, where science and technology constitute decisive factors of progress without which we cannot conceive human survival today.

After millennia on the rise among civilizations scattered throughout the geography of the planet dragging the burden of beliefs, fantasies, successes and mistakes, technoscience in all its edges shakes this ballast to gain after experiences, sometimes bloody, knowledge that today astonishes by the fast route in the spiral of the already indefinable science.

During the last hundred years, the 20th century for example, nuclear energy broke into a project that encompassed different branches of knowledge and especially as a new source of energy. Let us add in the most recent century the space conquest and the arrival to the Moon when, barely 50,000 years ago, homo sapiens stood on his two legs.

The development of household appliances such as refrigerators, electric stoves, machines for washing clothes and many other items that make life easier for humanity has been made effective.

The discovery of the use of penicillin and with it the creation of all kinds of antibiotics, including the Ebola vaccine, managed to reduce the presence of numerous and deadly infections. On the other hand, the development of the media, the computer and the Internet are among the most emblematic inventions of the 20th century.

Fabulous leap of science was the discovery of the structure of DNA, a study that determines the characteristics of living beings and their genetic inheritances.

In closer years, science noted the emergence of nanotechnology, whose applications in the fields of electronics, biology and medicine will allow the release of cells or small tissues in diseased organs so that they can be repaired.

Today the breakdown of scientific development could be infinite in any of its aspects.

But all these advances need the accompaniment of the sciences of Nature, and in it research on the climate is essential, that is, on the set of atmospheric conditions typical of a place such as the amount and frequency of rains, humidity, temperature, winds, etc., and whose complex action influences the existence of living beings.

Of course, the progress of meteorology in recent decades has made it possible to perfect instruments for data processing, including the use of meteorological satellites, hurricane-hunting planes and drones, which allows for immediate information on sea currents, surface temperatures of seas and oceans, and for the collection, data processing and projection of meteorological forecasts in a matter of minutes.

There is no doubt that at present we have begun to perceive more and more a world in progressive warming. The greatest impacts of climate change on society are already felt through exceptionally dangerous phenomena, such as floods, hurricanes and waves of heat or cold, even devastating fires.

Precisely this year's cyclonic season will be particularly active in the Caribbean area with estimated figures above the historical average in our geographic region, with the danger that at least one hurricane of intensity will affect Cuba.

Meteorological science with all its resources and scope cannot prevent the appearance of tropical storms or influence their course or intensity; it can, indeed, let us know its course and contribute to the protection of people and economic resources.

Now the 2021 season, as it happened last year, comes to us accompanied by a pandemic neither foreseen nor stopped by any of the sciences that we have related or by any other.

The global tragedy that the coronavirus is producing has not only surprised the planet in its indiscriminate attack against races, creeds, nations, ages, climates, social status or political currents, but has also shown us how vulnerable humanity is despite discovering that there is water on the planet Mars and populate the space with artificial satellites.

Cuba bravely faces the virus with all its resources and the application of the best of medical science, as well as it is getting ready to face the cyclonic season that from the Atlantic and the Caribbean stirs its black waters of storms against our coasts.

We have thus reached an extraordinary in the history not only of Cuba, but of humanity as a whole; beyond this global epidemic, neither science nor we will be the same. Something is transformed in Humanity and in the climate to which we owe our existence. The Earth and the children of Nature have suffered greatly despite cries that few hear ... I hope that we will be able to stop the countdown.