Probably accentuate both the intensity and frequency of hurricanes and tropical cyclones in the area, and would extend to latitudes today unaffected or outside the scope of these natural phenomena.

The Earth’s climate is very difficult to predict, because there are many factors to consider: rain, sunshine, wind, temperature … So you can not define exactly what the effects will lead to global warming. But apparently, climate change could be very severe.

A first consequence, very possible, is the increase of drought: in some places the rainfall decrease. In others, the rain will increase, causing flooding.

A warmer atmosphere could cause the ice near the poles to melt. The amount of water that would raise the sea level. An increase of only 60 cm would inundate the fertile lands of Bangladesh, India, of whom depend on hundreds of thousands of people to obtain food. Tropical storms may occur more frequently.

The current child is one of the clearest examples of the problems that global warming brings, unbalanced state of global climate causing too much rain in some places to floods and other is totally a drought, you can also cite the abrupt change temperature and pressure in the atmosphere which results in long sequences of tornadoes and typhoons. This is more in tropical areas where tornadoes occur in the time of year and climate change these very often reappear.

We know we can expect the consequences of the greenhouse effect for the next century, if not return to lower values:

- Increase in average global temperature.
- Increased drought in some areas and flooding in others.
- Increased frequency of hurricane formation.
- Progressive melting of polar ice caps and consequent rise in sea levels.
- Increased precipitation at the global level but fewer days and more rain in torrents.
- Increased number of hot days, resulted in waves of heat.

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A similar rise would mean the contamination of aquifers, the recession of coasts and wetlands, up to 15% of the fertile land of Egypt and 14% of Bangladesh would be flooded by rising maximum. Possibly affecting the stability of tropical forests and biodiversity, due to its high degree of vulnerability to environmental changes in the balance, being replaced by degenerated ecosystems.

Coral reefs contain the greatest genetic diversity after tropical forests, including one third of all fish species known. Most are on average water temperatures approach the maximum tolerable without submitting changes in its symbiotic balance.

If the sea temperature rises by 2 0 3 ° C, the stability of some corals would be threatened. Projected increases in sea level also affect their ability to survive, because the stability of coral reefs is associated with the maintenance of a certain distance from the water surface.

The expected warming far exceeds the capacity of migration of natural communities, resulting in destruction without replacement and impoverishment of ecosystems, species loss and ultimately loss of the earth’s capacity to support life. Perhaps industrialized agriculture to respond to the new situation quickly enough (although in the U.S. heat wave of 1988 represented a 30% decline in the harvest of grain), but agriculture in developing countries has no means an such adaptation.

There are many powerful phenomena whose evolution climate change is uncertain, for example, the consequences of an ice-free Arctic Ocean sea currents and their influence on the fishery, or the likely movement of tropical diseases to other parts of the Earth.

Examples such as malaria and dengue fever could spread over a greater proportion of land area, affecting millions of people who are now outside their areas of influence.

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The Zapatero government continues with the double talk, speaks to combat climate change on one side and the other slowed down the deployment of photovoltaics and now hampers the thermal, technology to produce electricity from solar heat.

Via Decree dated 5 May has changed the conditions for the installation of renewable energies such as solar thermal, power prices that will compete soon in generation with conventional sources even without taking into account the externalidads such as emissions of CO2.

The industry planned to invest in Andalusia 3000 million euros. and is in tune with the so-called “green dial” proposed as an alternative to the crisis developing renewable energy and green job creation.

In 2007 renewable energy in Spain provided 89,000 direct jobs and an equal amount in inditrectos jobs

A combination of anthropogenic global warming and a moderate warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean by the phenomenon known as El Niño, makes it very likely that 2010 will be a year worldwide warmer than 2009.

Recently published data confirm that 2009 is expected to be the fifth warmest year in records dating back to 1850.
The latest forecast our climate scientists, shows global temperature is expected to be nearly 0.6 ° C above the 1961-90 average long term. This means it is more likely that 2010 will be the warmest year in instrumental record, beating the previous record year was 1998.
Earlier than that 2010 average global temperature record is not a certainty, especially if the current El Niño unexpectedly low rapidly around the beginning of 2010, or if there was a volcanic eruption. The Met Office forecasts revised during the year 2010 with available observational data.
Looking ahead, the experimental decadal forecasts from the Met Office confirms earlier indications that about half of the years 2010-2019 will be warmer than the warmest year so far observed – 1998.

The year 2009, with a provisional temperature of 14.44 ° C observed, can be compared with identical predicted value of 14.44 ° C.
The Met Office, in collaboration with the University of East Anglia, keeps a record global temperature that is used in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Every December or January, the Met Office, in collaboration with the University of East Anglia, issues a forecast of the global surface temperature for the next year.

It is likely that the accumulation of these greenhouse gases in the atmosphere over the last few thousand years has stopped the start of a new glacial cycle, as those who have been in constant intervals every 100,000 years during the last million years.

Each glacial period was marked by regular, predictable changes of Earth’s orbit, known as orbital variations.

Because of these variations in Earth’s orbit, although the solar luminosity is almost constant over millions of years, the average amount of radiation received by each hemisphere fluctuates, what times of extreme cold.

According to scientists, without the action of human beings today we would probably find one of those times.

As a result of many factors, the climate has changed in recent years. These changes have been perceived around the world and has allegedly affected many forms of life around the globe. Global warming is one of the names this phenomenon has received, but there are theories that speak of a global cooling problem, especially in some regions of the planet.

Usually this phenomenon is attributed to high levels of pollution that our modern, industrialized lives expel a mother nature that, despite not being alive, has managed to self-regulate, regulate and even for centuries.

Days, weeks, months and years have passed, but there seems no clear way to resolve the issue. At most, a variety of publications, some more disturbing than others, try to remind ourselves occasionally that the problem is still there and that unless we take action on the matter, we must bear the consequences for generations.

Today I decided to gather some information that is publicly available and an analysis of the topic. The first item on the list was trying to clarify what is global warming. To my surprise, I found that was a perfectly normal natural phenomenon that allows for life on the planet. To summarize, I would say that the sun’s rays bounce off a few times in and out of the planet, warming the atmosphere in the process, until finally managed to get out.

What is causing the problem is that pollution, mainly-but not exclusively carbon dioxide pollution causes the sun to bounce a few times more than they should. As a result, the temperature seems to be rising everywhere in a slight but noticeable.

So far, it seems that the only two things we need to do is stop sending CO2 and other polluting gases into the atmosphere and start planting more trees to plants to absorb excess carbon dioxide on the planet. However, apart from that it is much easier said than done, this is not the only approach to the problem.

The global warming melts the ice in the Arctic. Polar bears have to hunt for ice. If the earth is becoming warmer polar bears will not survive.

Warming up
The earth is getting warmer. The average temperature in 2006 and 2007 was higher than ever in the Netherlands. This is mainly caused by man. But some scholars think that in part comes from nature itself. Around the earth is a shell of oxygen and other gases. This is called the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is one of the gases that hold heat around the Earth. Emissions from cars and planes and by waste from factories and power plants is more and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Heat can not go out and the earth is getting warmer. This is called also called the greenhouse effect, because it works like a greenhouse.

Impact
Scientists believe that global temperatures in 2050 will be three degrees higher than now. This much is enough ice on the Arctic and Antarctic to melt. This will put more water in the seas. Sea levels are rising and more flooding. Some low areas may disappear. In some places, the more rain and storms. In other places will just always be drier. Some animals will not survive. It is too hot or too cold for them or they will no longer find food. Diseases will spread more easily.

What can we do?
To ensure that the earth can continue should anything happen. Governments try to make other arrangements to address the greenhouse effect. But this is very difficult. Some countries, the industry and the economy more important than milieu.Toch include new ways to gain real power needed by oil and gas because there is much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. With the help of sun, wind and water we can produce energy. You yourself do something for the environment. For example, try not to use too much electricity and use old stuff again.

“If the warming of the planet is trying to limit, it is absurd to form soil to produce bio fuels,” said Joe Giorgione, researcher at the Nature Conservancy, one of the leading private environmental organizations and co-author of the study also carried out with scientists from the University of Minnesota. “All the bio fuels we use now, bring a destruction of nature with them, directly or indirectly,” said Giorgione.

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by converting land to make bio fuels to produce is greater than the amount of CO2 not emitted through the use of those fuels.

According to the study of changes in the atmosphere have increased the Antarctic against the sun’s radiation. Ice floes large withdrawal from the sea has eroded Albedo or reflectance of solar radiation over. Because of this, at least one thousand years have contributed to the phenomenon a result of sunlight is reflected back into space anymore as much as before, the climate is gradually warmed.

Global warming is “very likely” to human-caused problem that will last for centuries and require Concerted international action to reduce its potentially devastating impacts, a United Nations panel of climate experts declared Friday in a landmark report. Now the question is Whether the bleak report will change the politics of global warming in the U.S. and lead to a more united effort to deal with the problem, and for the moment, that appears uncertain.

The Bush administration embrace the report but rejected demands for a mandatory system of capping “greenhouse gas” emissions such as carbon dioxide. Instead, the administration said President Bush would rely on his plans to develop more renewable fuel and require more efficient vehicles.

But with Democrats controlling Congress, pressure is apt to build on the White House to take a tougher approach. More than half a dozen bills, some of them bipartisan-have been presented to Congress calling for mandatory caps on emissions, though the administration said they would hurt the economy and not Effectively deal with the problem.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said, “President Bush should immediately work with Congress to pass legislation that requires reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases, and he should call together the leaders of the world To obtain their binding commitment to Reducing pollution around the globe. ”

The report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change struck a chord of urgency as it warned of rising sea levels, more powerful storms and rapidly shifting weather patterns, including floods and droughts, Resulting from a warming of the planet that it said could last for thousand years.

The scientists from 113 countries said they are now 90 percent confident that global warming is caused by humans, in contrast with a 2001 report In which they said they were 60 percent to 90 percent confident.

Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Program, said the focus should shift from the cause of global warming “to what on Earth are we going to do about it. The public should not sit back and say, `There’s nothing we can do. ‘”

“Warming of the planet is unequivocal,” the 21-page report concluded, “as is now evident from observations of global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level.”

In effect, the panel said governments and people can not prevent the planet from warming but that steps can be taken to stem the projected increases.

The panel forecast global temperature increases of 2 to 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100 but added that its best estimate was for a rise of 3.2 to 7.1 degrees. Warming during the 21st Century would “very likely be larger” than that of the 20th Century, the report said.

Not all scientists agree

Some question such conclusions about global warming.

Patrick Michaels, a scholar at the Cato Institute, a libertarian Washington think tank, said that “it is not news to say that human beings are responsible for much of the warming in the late 20th Century.”

But Michaels said the report was not as alarming as portrayed. He cited a prediction by the panel that sea levels would rise by a modest 7 to 23 inches by the end of the century and noted that this was slightly less than the panel reported in 2001.

“What this report does is place this very small but very widely-quoted group of alarmists who are talking about 20 feet of sea-rise-far, far beyond the fringes [of environmental science],” he said.

But the report, as well as Bush administration officials, said the relatively modest increases in the sea level do not take into account the recent Increased rate of ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica.

“[The sea-rise prediction in the report] is less,” Stephen Johnson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters. “But we believe there are other effects that have not been taken into account yet.”

The report said an additional 3.9 to 7.98 inches of sea-level rise are possible if the recent melting of polar ice sheets continues at its recent rate.

Joseph Romm, an assistant secretary of energy in the Clinton administration, said in an interview that if the rate of recent ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica continues, there would be a dramatic rise in sea levels that would devastate coastlines around the world.

Romm, author of a book on global warming, called the report “very solid and alarming.” He said a “hidden bombshell” in the report is a finding that as the Earth grows hotter, the less the soil is able to absorb carbon. That would lead to an acceleration of greenhouse gases, he said, and could be devastating to the ecosystem.

“The key point is that it said humans are the most likely cause,” Romm said. “If we are the main cause, we are the main solution. You can not endorse the report and not endorse strong action on climate change. ”

The Bush administration said it is already taking action. The White House noted that Bush has devoted nearly $ 29 billion to climate-related science, technology, international assistance and incentives since 2001.

Bush has spent nearly $ 9 billion on climate science research, “leading the world with unparalleled financial commitment,” the White House said in a statement.

In his State of the Union speech last month, the president acknowledged that global warming is a problem and that he is taking steps to do something about it. But it has not been his top priority.

He refused to endorse the 1997 Kyoto agreement to create a mandatory system to cap carbon dioxide emissions, saying it would harm the U.S. economy and would not be effective Because fast-developing countries like China and India are not abiding by it.

During his first presidential campaign, I had pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act, but I backtrack when I took office.

At the Energy Department on Friday, Secretary Samuel Bodman said the president has set an “aggressive” goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent by 2012, through Increasing the supply of renewable fuels like ethanol and reforming the government’s fuel economy standards for cars.