SOS Climate change

Un reciente estudio de la Universidad de New South Wales, en Australia, confirma el calentamiento global del planeta y señala sus consecuencias. La Tierra se calienta y el homo sapiens tiene la culpa. Quienes quieren hacernos creer que es mera propaganda ecologista mienten. Que tomen nota los grandes contaminadores. "Una subida de 4C puede ser catastrófica", afirma el profesor Steven Sherwood, al frente del equipo investigador australiano. Ninguno de los que lean el presente post estará vivo en 2100. Casi es un consuelo.

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The scientist leading the research said that unless emissions of greenhouse gases were cut, the planet would heat up by a minimum of 4C by 2100, twice the level the world's governments deem dangerous.

The research indicates that fewer clouds form as the planet warms, meaning less sunlight is reflected back into space, driving temperatures up further still. The way clouds affect global warming has been the biggest mystery surrounding future climate change.

Professor Steven Sherwood, at the University of New South Wales, in Australia, who led the new work, said: "This study breaks new ground twice: first by identifying what is controlling the cloud changes and second by strongly discounting the lowest estimates of future global warming in favour of the higher and more damaging estimates."

"4C would likely be catastrophic rather than simply dangerous,"  "For example, it would make life difficult, if not impossible, in much of the tropics, and would guarantee the eventual melting of the Greenland ice sheet and some of the Antarctic ice sheet", with sea levels rising by many metres as a result. (Short abstract  from "The Guardian").