GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

Global Warming - Climate Changes - Greenhouse Effect

Cambio Climático Global

Climate Change and Global Warming

• Introduction to Global Climate Change
• Theoretical foundations of Global Climate Change
• The atmosphere
• Atompheric composition
• Atmospheric energy budget (energy balance)
• Oceans
• The Cryosphere
• The Biosphere
• The Geosphere
• Global Climate Change
• Climate Change causes (Greenhouse effect, etc.)
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Radiative forcing mechanisms
• What's been predicted on the subject of Global Warming
• International response on Global Warming and Climate Change
• Things that can be done to avoid climate change
• Conclusions
• CambioClimáticoGlobal.com Update, January 2009

Climate Change and Global Warming Resources

• Global Warming News blog (Spanish)
• User contributions
• Videos
• Links to sites related to Global Warming
• Fun and extras
• Bibliography
• Original Global Warming Document (without images) in MS Word *.zip 32 Kbyte

Global climate change is now a scientific fact as a result of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides and chlorofluorocarbons. These gases are trapping more terrestrial infrared radiation and it is expected that planetry temperature will increase between 1.5 and 4.5°C (the so-called Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming). In response to this, it is estimated that the global rainfall patterns and ocean currents will also be altered. Although there is general agreement on these findings, there is great uncertainty about the magnitudes and rates of these changes on regional scales.

Linked to these climate changes, major alterations in global ecosystems will occur. Scientific studies suggest that the ranges of tree species may vary significantly as a result of these global climate changes. For example, studies in Canada project losses of about 170 million hectares of forests in southern Canada and profits of 70 million hectares in northern Canada, for changes as those that are suggested and would entail a net loss of 100 million hectares of forests. And these are just some of the global changes ahead... Read more>>

Very comprehensive site on global climate change, global environmental problems, which exacerbate the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere that causes warming of planet Earth, its atmosphere, the layer of gas that sustains us.