Are we going to survive global warming?
Many phenomena on Earth are interrelated and each event affects a bit to another, directly or indirectly. That is the essence of the various global processes, such as global warming. It is also the best example of the influence of a small number of countries in the rest of the world.
Facts and skirmishes
During the industrialization of the mid-19 century, today's industrial global forcec have emitted into the atmosphere huge amounts of gases and particles, which have strength and speed up a natural process of the "greenhouse effect" and contributed significantly to global warming. Since the beginning of systematic measurements of temperature ten warmest years were in the last two decades, and in 1998. was the warmest year ever measured. Since the mid-19th century the average annual temperature has increased by an average of 0.5 ° C. It does not seem much, but it has great significance on a global scale. For temperature changes of only 3 ° C resulted in a "little ice age" of 17 to 19 century, and during the great ice age was "only" 8 ° C lower than today. By the end of the 21st century the average annual temperature should be increased between 1 and 3.5 ° C.
Most scientists agree that man bears a great responsibility for global warming, but critics of this theory argue that it does not take the other, natural causes of warming. They argue that there is no reason for alarm, because these are the consequences of only one of the stages of natural climate cycles. In the last 10 000 years constantly alternating warm and cold periods, as confirmed by the results of the analysis of Antarctic ice, which are the possible causes of changes in the Earth around its axis. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Global warming is caused by a complex interaction of all these causes.
But what is certain is that the small temperature changes over a longer period of time cause major climate changes. And in short - ekstremene weather changes. The proof is that the severe droughts in Africa, fires in the United States and Australia, flooding in Western Europe and Southeast Asia, etc. It is also certain that many forms of pollution do not respect national borders and no country can isolate the problem. In order to better track and tried to alleviate the consequences of global warming , on the initiative of the United Nations , there was an establishment of several international organizations.
In the framework of the UN Convention to monitor climate change (UNFCCC), have held for several major conferences at which governments of big countries tried to agree on reducing emissions into the atmosphere. Mostly they have agree on the Kyoto Protocol in 1997th year, but still countries that are blamed for most polutions, such as USA, China, Russia and India are not signatories to any of the protocol.
And reports of the Intergovernmental Forum on Climate Change, IPCC, formed as a result of the cooperation of the UN and the World Meteorological Organization, regularly supplemented at conferences. Latest report says that the situation is not looking good - it is estimated that an increase in temperature until the end of the 21st century of between 1.0 and 3.5 ° C, which drags with it many other consequences, such as melting ice caps, increasing sea levels, reduced rainfall, severe drought, etc.
What are we left for?
We have to slowly getting used to the existing conditions, the winter without snow, the hot summers and on some long ago forgotten disease. Although as individuals we can not significantly affect the overall appearance of their actions, however, we can help strengthening collective consciousness , which can putt pressure on the government's most powerful countries . Instead of your own car, choose the public transport, let recycle and reduce consumption of precious drinking water. It starts from small things.
And as the world's governments, hopefully that will prevail personal interests and will be on one of the next conference on climate change to agree on our brighter future.
