| It is estimated that about 2100 the average | | | | equilibrium. |
| temperature of earth's surface will be between 1.5 and | | | | Sea water will evaporate, in other parts will be |
| 6 grades higher than in 1980. ¿who are the | | | | torrential rain, floods, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves |
| responsibles and what can we do? | | | | and freeze…among other natural disasters. |
| Our planet is getting warmer: that's a reality. The last | | | | An important concern |
| ten years have been the hottest; scientifics have | | | | According to different scientific studies, supported by |
| announced that in future it would be warmer. And, as | | | | ONU, it is estimated that in 2100m average |
| always, human beings are the main responsibles: we | | | | temperature of earth will be between 1,5 and 6 grades |
| exert a direct impact over warming process, also | | | | higher than in 1980. Temperatures are increasing at |
| known as "greenhouse effect". | | | | global scale, and the recorded 15 hottest years have |
| Greenhouse effect is an increase of greenhouse | | | | been since 1980. |
| gases concentration: carbon dioxide (CO2), | | | | This is the main concern of scientifics, because |
| chlorineflourinecarbonate (CFC), methane (CH4), | | | | besides all the aforementioned disasters it could be |
| nitrogen oxide (N2O) and troposphere ozone. | | | | famine and epidemic, ice floes melting, flora and fauna |
| In small concentrations these gases are necessary for | | | | disappearing and Caribbean Island flooding. |
| our survival. Solar energy come in through them, | | | | What is worse is that we are "collaborating" with global |
| reaches the earth and return as infrared energy. At | | | | warming by using fossil fuel (coal, oil and its derivates |
| that moment greenhouse gases catch them and keep | | | | as paraffin, liquefied gas and benzine), allowing industrial |
| the infrared radiation heat, as a greenhouse. | | | | contamination, among others, and forests and wet |
| But in major quantities, the main consequence of | | | | lands destruction. |
| greenhouse effect is the atmosphere global warming. | | | | It is believed that if temperature continues to elevate, |
| Why?...because contaminant gases (or greenhouse), | | | | global warming is going to uneven distributed. |
| as carbon dioxide, provoke that solar energy keep | | | | Continental zones are going to be hottest than sea |
| trapped in atmosphere. And it takes only a slight | | | | zones. |
| modification of temperature to break the nature | | | | |