WILDLIFE IS STRUGGLING TO

KEEP PACE.

THE FORESTS ARE DRYING.

THE SEA LEVELS ARE RISING.

GLACIERS ARE MELTING.

We call it “globlal warming” and is causing a serie of changes in the weather.

It is changing the pace of the climate that all living beings have become accustomed.

• ¿What will we do to slow this warming?

• ¿How will we cope with the changes that we have already launched?

While we try to understand it, the face of the earth as we know it, its coast, forests and mountains are in danger because of global warming.

Are not natural the temperature changes?• The global average temperature and concentrations

of CO2 (a major GHG) have fluctuated in a cycle of hundreds of thousands of years as has varied the position of the earth relative to the sun. As result, there have been differents ice ages.

• However, for thousands of years, GHG emissions to the atmosphere have been offset by GHGs that are absorbed naturally. Therefore, GHG concentrations and temperature have been stable. This stability has allowed human civilization develop in a consistent climate.

• Humans have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere over a third since the industrial revolution. These significants changes have occurred historically in the course of thousands of years, which now occur in just few decades.

Why is worrisome?• The rapid increase in GHG is a problem because the climate is

changing so fast that some living beings can not adapt. Similarly, a new and unpredictable weather imposes unique challenges to all kind of life in the earth.

• Nowadays, with the concentrations of GHG gases rise, the ice sheets that remain on earth(for example; in Greenland and Antarctica) also began to melt. This excess of water could greatly increase the sea level.

• As the mercury rises, the weather can change unexpectedly. Addition of the increased sea level, the weather can become in a way more extreme. This implies greater and more intense storms, more rain by longer and intense droughts (this is a challenge for crops) changes in the areas where animals are living.