This essay climate change aims to identify the main causes of climate change, with the consequences that

it produces and the possible actions that are available to us to mediate this problem that affects us all equally and that now day no living being on the face of the earth is exempt. We have signs of major changes taking place on the planet, there are streams that are drying up and that had never happened that fact, some forests already stretched, our planet is at a crossroads, global warming is not yet out of control but soon it could be the warning signs are all around this is the challenge of climate change. What can we do about global warming? What will happen to the earth if we do not?, The temperature is rising, each grade is critical. As the world warms up grade to grade, the debate is closed, scientists around the world agree that we live in a world now almost a degree warmer, they work hard to collect information that allows them to analyze this situation (thousands of vessels at sea, tens of thousands of ground stations, satellites observing from space), scientists enter data in most advanced simulators for computers to calculate what it all meant in our future. The predictions are alarming, in four decades Himalayan glaciers supply water to millions of people could disappear, in the span of fifty years, Greenland could melt layer inevitably, by the end of this century home plus Amazon Silva nearly half of global biodiversity, could be reduced to an arid savanna, we are about to reach a degree temperature, more heat than experienced for thousands of years. As our planet undergoes changes in temperature, each grade amounts radically different future, including drought in the driest places on earth and therefore disastrous fires. Current data show that the average global temperature by about 0.8 degrees higher in arid countries and there are precedents that show how vulnerable you are to these changes, fires are a warning, a warning about what the change climate may cause. The atmosphere is our buffer between the planet's surface and outer space, a small percentage of them are greenhouse gases, a cocktail of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone. This mixture forms a dome on the planet, dome that retains just the right amount of energy reflected from the sun to keep the temperature that makes life possible. As the amount of these gases increases more and more heat trap which can dramatically affect the entire planet's climate over the past two hundred fifty years the greenhouse gas emissions have increased as we found multiple ways to spend more and more energy, carbon dioxide is the hidden price we paid for it, it rises into the atmosphere from the energy that powers all our modern conveniences, literally in the air we breathe, there are currently 383 carbon dioxide molecules per million, apparently a tiny amount but as this increases so does the average global temperature, double the amount of carbon dioxide is to ensure global disaster, from the melting of the

poles, which would cause a rise in sea level, vulnerable places that are below this "flood that left in oblivion", hurricanes begin to punish the South Atlantic, droughts in some parts of the world, have shortage of grain and meat markets around the world, and the emergence of new deserts The temperature of the earth always fluctuated and variable weather is normal, what is unprecedented is the current rate of climate change, now we have realized that we are so close to the critical points that would have to stabilize carbon dioxide atmospheric greenhouse gases currently produced by man is in order of magnitude larger and is being introduced very quickly, the planet experienced climate change before, but usually developed over thousands or millions of years, nowadays warming measure global decades or even years, that means the extinction of many species, the heat produced at that speed could plunge into unknown territory, unlike anything we've experienced in the history of life on earth. Global warming started with our insatiable appetite for energy, each switch press, every outlet, every oppressed button to turn on something, the increased use fossil fuel burning machines like automobiles that produce about 20% of the world total of greenhouse gases, nowhere is it so urgent the problem of emissions from transport as in developing countries, inevitably all previously expressed leads to insight on global warming. About 90% of the world's energy begins as fossil fuel, coal, oil, natural gas, but we can not escape the chemicals from the burning of fossil remains of the planet and animals. The impact of carbon is accumulated, although not the only finally occurs greenhouse gas, methane gas is also produced by the decomposition of organic matter, equivalent to at least 23 carbon units other element is attached to this problem . "You can see which are the ones that make up the daily Aceres really the critical aspect of human activity that leads to global warming." Even in the best of the weather forecast could have fundamental change in the way of functioning of the planet, this could affect the delicate balance of nature, from the depths of the oceans to the highest peaks of the world. The oceans are the largest mass of carbon on the planet, the primary mechanisms of nature intended to absorb carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere, but lately there are signs that these systems are collapsing. Under normal small marine creatures as foraminifera and coccolithophores carbon absorb water after using them to build their shells and skeletons, but are at a critical point of excess carbon dioxide in the water is starting to make them acidic, dissolves the shells

acidification skeletons of these creatures and preventing absorb more carbon dioxide to build again. Warming accelerates the loss of polar ice and this in turn aselara warming is a reciprocal process, much of the melted ice absorbs more heat from the sun, melting the ice and warming the planet even faster , hotter faster heat up at this point global warming becomes a chain reaction whose effects are not so easy to predict. The child's behavior will be extreme weather everyday things, the heat will increase to such an extent that plants and trees that under normal conditions, are a first line of defense against the greenhouse gases since they absorb carbon dioxide to convert then and free oxygen in the atmosphere, due to incessant calos we are experiencing some of them are doing a reverse process, retain oxygen and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Climate change is also manifested THROUGH violent phenomena we are currently experiencing, current climate models allow us to demonstrate that continued warming, super turbo feed the storms we've seen in recent times, this is because the oceans accumulate more energy is where feed hurricanes due to heating thereof. There are many solutions available to us that could prevent further combined influencing climate change, from changing light bulbs with fluorescent lamps, the use of solar panels, hydroelectric, wind and temperature, increase the efficiency of all coal power plants to global 20%, double the fuel efficiency of vehicles from 2 Km / liter to 4 Km / liter with this action would not be emitting billions of tons of carbon dioxide, how are you together solutions can have a huge impact entities we start to cause irreversible changes in the climate control primary systems of the earth. In conclusion I can emphasize that in our hands this intervene with this problem and be able to contribute positively to these changes are taking place so radically and not lament the end results are not faborables for all the living creatures that inhabit the face of earth.

REFERENCES: Conducted Conference on Thursday, August 9, 2012 by Dr. Daniel M. Kammen. http://www.climatehotmap.org National Geographic Channel documentary on climate change

BLUEFIELDS INDIAN AND CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY (BICU)

SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

CAREER: CIVIL ENGINEERING

LEVEL: III YEAR

SHIFT: EVENING

TOPIC: SCIENCE AND POLICY FOR A LOW-CARBON ECONOMY

PREPARED BY: BR. HOLMAN LOPEZ

ORIENTED CONFERENCE BY: DANIEL M. KAMMEN.

BLUEFIELDS 26/SEPTIEMBRE/2010

"EDUCATION IS THE BEST OPTION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR COAST PEOPLE"