GLACIERS

ARE MELTING.
THE SEA
LEVELS ARE
RISING.
We call it globlal
warming and is
causing a serie of
changes in the weather.
It is changing the pace
of the climate that all
living beings have
become accustomed.
WILDLIFE IS
STRUGGLING
TO KEEP PACE.
THE FORESTS
ARE DRYING.

 What will we do to slow this warming?

How will we cope with the changes that we
have already launched?

While we try to understand it, the face of the

earth as we know it, its coast, forests and
mountains are in danger because of global
warming.

Are not natural the temperature changes?

The global average temperature and
concentrations of CO2 (a major GHG) have
fluctuated in a cycle of hundreds of thousands
of years as has varied the position of the earth
relative to the sun. As result, there have been
differents ice ages.

However, for thousands of years, GHG

emissions to the atmosphere have been offset
by GHGs that are absorbed naturally. Therefore,
GHG concentrations and temperature have
been stable. This stability has allowed human
civilization develop in a consistent climate.

Humans have increased the amount of CO2 in

the atmosphere over a third since the industrial
revolution. These significants changes have
occurred historically in the course of thousands
of years, which now occur in just few decades.

Why is worrisome?

The rapid increase in GHG is a problem because the climate is

changing so fast that some living beings can not adapt.
Similarly, a new and unpredictable weather imposes unique
challenges to all kind of life in the earth.

Nowadays, with the concentrations of GHG gases rise, the ice

sheets that remain on earth(for example; in Greenland and
Antarctica) also began to melt. This excess of water could
greatly increase the sea level.

As the mercury rises, the weather can change unexpectedly.

Addition of the increased sea level, the weather can become
in a way more extreme. This implies greater and more intense
storms, more rain by longer and intense droughts (this is a
challenge for crops) changes in the areas where animals are
living.