Climate change: Are we suffering now?

In recent years we are living a series of events rarely seen so far.It is impossible to close our eyes to all those phenomena that are happening in several countries: terrible storms , waves of cold , floods, tsunamis, fires...

Is it about climate change? Is this a start maybe? The experts do not agree, there are those who see in the «climate change» label a new form of investment with which to withdraw money and change the productive mode of large industries, while others, simply see as the Glaciers are withdrawing, as the temperature rises in the Arctic, and as every year, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis increase...The evidence seems more than evident.

Extreme cold due to warming

What happened in the US in the months of December and January 2014, is calling everyone's attention.Experts warn that they had not seen each other these temperatures in no time.In 1996, temperatures of 13 degrees below zero were collected in Wahsington, but these days, the thermometer has reached 18 under zero in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, Alabama...The life of many Americans has suddenly been seen, covered by a very thick white mantle that has prevented them from leading their lives normally.Trapped by fear and incomprension.

Climate change: Are we suffering now?

The country has already become familiar with the meteorological term «Vortice Polar», a cyclone that arrives directly from the Pole until freezing Rocky Mountains and the east of the state.In a video published by the White House itself, John Holdres , the Science and Technology Advisor of President Barack Obama. appears in the interview, he explains that all these effects are related to global warming, and consequently, with climate change.There are no doubts.

Moreover, it also warns that in the coming years, things will get worse, producing more episodes of extreme cold in the usually middle latitudes.

Climate change: Are we suffering now?

Changes in weather conditions

Cyclones, hurricanes, floods ...we have all seen in the media a multitude of natural disasters occurred in recent years, they are "extreme atmospheric events" that are not due to chance, oscillations that have their origin in global warming, and that according to many scientists, it is arriving earlier than expected.

The rise in temperatures translates into greater evaporation, in a warmer atmosphere that retains greater humidity and always drifts in more water in suspension, and consequently, in more violent precipitations.Recently we are seeing it in the Spanish Cantabrian.The storms and the violence of the ocean is devouring many of the coasts, deriving lighthouses, ports and even entering the cities themselves.Is climate change coming too soon?

Climate change: Are we suffering now?

We don't know.But the evidence is there: 10% decrease of snow in the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, glacier retreat, 60% decrease of the Niger's African hydrographic basins, Lake Chad and Senegal, the annual floods in Eastern Europe, the monsoons , the Tsunamis...

Anyway, climate change affects us all. Its impact in all areas of our life is more than demonstrable: migrations of people and animals, lack of drinking water, changes in food production, floods, social revolutions and economic...Getting a sustainable world not only depends on large industries and large emitting countries.We, from our daily lives, can also do small things so that this beautiful planet remains in good condition to take care of us. What if we start today?

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