Environtmental and Global Health

Posts Tagged ‘what is global warming?’

The climate has always varied, the problem of climate change is that in the last century the pace of these changes are abnormally accelerated to such an extent that affects and planetary life. In seeking the cause of this acceleration, scientists found that a direct relationship between global warming or climate change and increasing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), caused primarily by industrialized societies.

A phenomenon of concern to the world: global warming and its direct impact, climate change, which occupies much of the efforts of the international scientific community to study and control it, because, they say, threatens the future of humanity.

Why so worried? Leading scientists agree that the increased concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere is causing changes in climate. They also agree that emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) have been very intense since the Industrial Revolution, after which time the action of man over nature became intense. Read the rest of this entry »