Consequences
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Climate Change
It would be ridiculous if we speak about climatic change without talking about the changes that are taking place. Because the global warming is more studied than the global dimming, the consequences that we will expose will only correspond to the effects of the global warming. If you want to know better the consequences of the Global Dimming check the sites that we cited in the page "Global Dimming".
The first consequence that will be noticed globally will be the increase of the level of the sea. With a simple increase of temperature between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius would be enough to melt almost all the ice of Greenland . At the moment we can see that the polar bears die since the Arctic ice is every time smaller, reason why they do not have great spaces where to live. In the same zone the population of seals of the Arctic has diminished significantly, due to the heating of the water.
Chile temperatures in 1990.
Chile pronosticated climate in 2070.
A significant fact that it shows to us the increase of the temperatures is that in Canada the cycle of reproduction of the red squirrels has gone ahead in 18 days, with respect to the previous generations, so that their young is born in a warmer climate.
And the heat waves not only have arrived at America , but that also to Europe, where in the summer there was an intense warm wave, which produced that in the year 2003 to 18 people die in Portugal . Australia is not the exception, since in last decades has disappeared almost a 15% of chorale reefs because of the change of temperatures.
In the year 2005, inside the Amazon, in Brazil , come to pass its worse lack of water in 40 years. The losses in vegetation and animals were enormous; hundreds of hectares were burned, being unusable until now. In addition if we thought that the Amazon clean enormous amounts of CO2 turning them into oxygen, it is a hard blow to what it is left to us to clean to our atmosphere.
In the Caribbean now they are more and more affected with hurricanes, like Katrina, that could be influenced by the high temperatures at the Atlantic Ocean . Dominican, a country of the Caribbean , has all its population living less than five meters of height. A small increase in the level of the sea and great part of the population would be under the water.
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It is impossible to name all the possible effects of the climatic change on our planet, reason why only we limited ourselves to show to them most important and chaotic. There are some people who think that is impossible to determine if a consequence will happen, but we choose only the consequences that were related to what have happened until now.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=244490
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_global_warming