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TCC Inglês - Aquecimento Global EN
TCC Inglês - Aquecimento Global EN
The climate changes observed today arouse the attention of the whole world,
and are definitively imposed on the international geopolitical agenda of present
and future. An international consensus, even marked by some dissonant voices,
formed about predictions for the intensification of global warming in the 21st
century, points to the formation of complicated scenarios for ecosystems, the
environment and the lives of men. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), it is very likely that the increase in global average
temperature is due to the increase in greenhouse gases by human activities,
which supposedly raised CO2 concentration to 379 ppmv in 2005, surpassing
its natural limit, which would be 300 ppmv. In the present text, the natural
characteristics of the phenomenon, as well as of the interferences resulting from
human activities in its intensification, its cause, and the economic, political, and
some alternative solutions to combat global warming are also highlighted. Some
reflections of global climate change on the regional scale are evidenced, with
emphasis on the Brazilian region.
INTRODUCTION
The agenda on global warming has become more and more frequent
worldwide. Questions about its cause, intensification and anthropic attitudes
have been discussed in several conferences and by some entities as well.
Concern about the near future of planet Earth is real, and has been aggravated,
especially with statements by scientists saying that the average temperatures of
the planet have increased by about 1.5 ° C in the last two centuries, and that
there will be an approximate order intensification from 2 ° C to 6 ° C in the 21st
century. Climate change may be the natural result of the climate system, or
have strong human participation. The causes of anthropogenic origin are
associated with the influence of human activities on the environment, aspect
that became increasingly important as the modernity evolved. The changes
produced or man-made have been highlighted by the rise in the average
temperature levels in the planet, mainly due to the increase in the levels of
greenhouse gases which have been changing the composition and dynamism
of the atmosphere. As a result of this alteration process, the average
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temperature of the Earth's atmosphere is raised, a phenomenon known as
global warming and is directly associated with the planetary greenhouse effect.
Part of the solar energy that reaches the planet is absorbed by the
oceans and the Earth's surface, causing it to warm up. A portion of this heat is
radiated back into space, but is blocked by the presence of greenhouse gases
that, despite allowing the energy from the sun to pass through, are opaque to
terrestrial radiation. In his scientific article, Francisco Mendonça explains how
the greenhouse effect works, and its main causative gases:
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global average temperature increase of 2 ° C to 5.8 ° C, according to the 4th
Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which
compiles studies on the scientific basis of climate change, considers global
warming an unequivocal phenomenon and is most likely caused by human
activities.
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Still in his speech on anthropic actions that contribute to global warming,
Mendonça complements:
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movements and soil erosion. Sediments from increased
erosion potential, for example, could compromise potable
water deposits, while in other regions there will be a
reduction in the rainfall regime, making the soil arid,
making certain agricultural activities unviable, etc.
The melting glaciers of the planet's poles have been the main culprit in
the increase in the level of ocean water that has been affecting and killing the
lives of animal species living in these regions.
Some studies indicate that at best, the increase in ocean water levels
tends to be 0.09 to 2.00 meters (which would be at worst) between 1990 and
2100, also resulting in flooding of several coastal cities in the world , and may
cause islands and some countries to disappear.
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summer. South Asia in 2015 had 3,400 dead in the cities of Karachi, Pakistan,
and Kolkata, India, where temperatures surpassed 48 ° C.
José Eli da Veiga and Petterson Molina Vale state in their article that:
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induce reductions of at most 8% for the period 1990-2010.
If fulfilled, these countries would have an average
reduction of 5.2% in two decades.
The European Union has created a carbon market for activities that emit
carbon dioxide. The government requires that each ton of emission corresponds
to a permit and at the same time determines how many permits are available to
these large emitters. As a tax, this scheme raises the price of fossil energy
sources, while minimizing the costs of reducing emissions. In addition, the cap-
and-trade scheme could generate funds for the government, provided the
decision was made to auction the permits.
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It is necessary to emphasize that these two approaches have not yet
been decided, and that the American and British parliamentarians are divided
between the two methods.
The study also predicts that the Amazônia and the Northeast will be the
Brazilian regions that will be most adversely affected by global warming. The
Amazônia can have a warming of 8ºC until 2100. With this scenario, 40% of the
forest cover in the south-southeast-east region of the Amazônia could be
replaced by savannah.
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According to a report from the World Summit on
Sustainable Development, known as Rio + 1016, in Brazil,
global warming could harm crops like apples, grapes or wheat,
which are important in temperate or cold states. Even if they
can adapt to other conditions, it would require time and money.
This reasoning applies in a general way: contrary to what is
usually imagined, the heat caused by the greenhouse effect
need not be an incorrigible and definitive catastrophe. But if
there is not a great and rapid effort to reduce the emission of
the polluting gases, these can cause deep social disorders. And
the longer the solutions take to happen, the greater the
damage.
José Eli da Veiga and Petterson Molina Vale, professor and student of
FEA USP, respectively, state in their article:
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What influences the institutional process of combating global warming is
the assumption that the indispensable technological solutions already exist. The
best way forward is to impose maximum national greenhouse gas targets,
counterbalanced by building a carbon market based on the CDM, The Clean
Development Mechanism, one of the easing mechanisms created by the Kyoto
Protocol to assist the process of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases or
carbon capture.
The most obvious is the use of tidal and wave energy, almost ready for
the market. There are three other alternatives as a second option: use of high
altitude winds, solar nanobateries, and projected microbes. And fifth, on the
waiting list, are space solar and nuclear fusion.
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response to the threat of climate change and strengthening the ability of
countries to deal with the impacts of these changes, which became known as
the Treaty of Paris.
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As a result, Agenda 21 emerged, involving the social,
economic, cultural, educational and environmental dimensions
of the population.
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It was one of the largest events ever held by the UN
and was attended by more than 180 countries.
The latest event on the Treaty of Paris was withdrawn from the United
States, announced in June 2017, received with great concern, as the United
States is one of the biggest polluters on the planet.
Concern about the exit of the United States is at the global level, other
countries could be influenced to reduce or mitigate their international
commitments on the climate issue or even abandon the agreement altogether.
The decision to withdraw from the agreement could signal Trump's intent to cut
other laws limiting the production of polluting gases in the US signed by his
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predecessor Obama. However, the US exit from the Paris Accord would not be
immediate. The process could take up to three years, as well as established in
the agreement itself, with various legal and diplomatic battles.
6. Alternative solutions
Space Reflectors: Designed to block out the sunlight before it reaches our
planet.
Reforestation: the idea is to plant trees on a global scale in order to promote the
sequestration of CO² and the natural cleaning of the air.
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Bio carbon: the technique aims to burn biomass and bury so that the carbon is
trapped in the soil.
Capture in ambient air: Look for the production of machines that could remove
CO² from the air and store it in other places.
Increased alkalinity of the oceans: idea is similar to weathering, but this time,
ores like limestone and calcium silicate would be dispersed in the seas to
increase carbon absorption, also contributing to control ocean acidification.
CONCLUSION
The issue of the level of emissions control seems to be better routed than that
of costs, with most economists agreeing that the imposition of a tax on carbon
emissions is much more efficient than a cap- and-trade, "in the style of the
current Kyoto Protocol. And this agreement extends to the fact that a globally
harmonized tax is politically infeasible, so that a hybrid scheme, called "cap-
and-tax," may be the most efficient strategy.
If the IPCC is indeed right, every country in the world, starting with the richest
and most powerful, should tackle the problem as if they were facing a major
war, instead of barring ridiculous emission limitation targets. The ethical stances
on which the political proposals depend are essentially two: what is the risk that
can be assumed about the temperature rise in this century in relation to the pre-
industrial level? What is the cost of combating warming that can be left to future
generations?
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to adopt limits in excess of 450 ppm for the concentration of carbon dioxide, or
to increase by more than 2 ° C by 2100 compared to 1900.
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