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