Actividad final.

Corporación Universitaria Minuto De Dios.

Bucaramanga.

2019.

GLOBAL WAMING

Global warming or climate change is the increase observed in more than a century of
the temperature of the Earth's climate system and the effects of that increase. Multiple
lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is heating up. Many of the
changes observed since the 1950s are unprecedented in the instrumental record of
temperatures that extends into the mid-nineteenth century or in paleoclimate proxy
records that cover thousands of years.
Future climate change and the associated impacts will be different from one region to
another around the globe. The anticipated effects include an increase in global
temperatures, a rise in sea level, a change in rainfall patterns and an expansion of
subtropical deserts.
Possible responses to global warming include mitigation by reducing emissions,
adapting to their effects, building resilient systems to their impacts and possible future
climate engineering. The burning of fossil fuels has produced around three quarters of
the increase in CO2 by human activity in the last 20 years. The rest of this increase is
mainly due to changes in land use, especially deforestation.

Questions

 What is global warming?

Is the increase observed in more than a century of the temperature of the Earth's climate
system and the effects of that increase
 What effects will global warming bring?
Anticipated effects include an increase in global temperatures, a rise in sea level.
 What can be done to stop the warming?

Can be reduced by reducing emissions, adapting to their effects, building resilient

systems to their impacts and possible future climate engineering

 What other probable effects include global warming?

It will include more frequent extreme weather phenomena, such as heat waves,
droughts, torrential rains and heavy snowfall.
 What increases global warming?
The burning of fossil fuels has produced about three quarters of the increase by human
activity.
Reference.

 Good, P., et al. (2010), An updated review of developments in climate science

research since IPCC AR4. A report by the AVOID consortium(en inglés), Londres,
Reino Unido: Committee on Climate Change, p. 14. Report website.