The association Greenpeace warned against a possible collapse of the glacier Pertermann (Greenland), which could fragment the effect of high temperatures. Since early this summer, the association made an expedition aboard the icebreaker ‘Arctic Sunrise’ with which aims to assess the impact of climate change on Sermilik Fjord, Canada.
a victim of global warming
Thus, environmentalists warned of the danger that such phenomena occur, since such fragmentation would adrift an icy surface equivalent to Manhattan Island.
In this sense, Greenpeace noted that a rise in global average temperature above 20 degrees would risk that much will have melted permanently frozen zone, which would raise the average global sea level about seven meters.
“The impacts of climate change will breakneck speed, so the world’s governments must agree to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that cause at the same speed,” claimed the campaign responsible for Climate Change and Energy from Greenpeace Raquel Monton.
Therefore, the environmental group appealed to the responsibility of the Prime Minister, José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero, “to go personally to the December summit in Copenhagen climate and support a 2020 agreement providing for reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases developed countries of 40 percent over 1990.
Also asked to be financed in developing countries with 110,000 million euros a year “to be able to combat global warming and stop deforestation in the Amazon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Indonesia by 2015.”
