Global Warning of Global Warming

The following statements are likely to make us jerk and stared. He said: "The statement that global warming is real nonsense. The statement was repeated by activists to convince both the public scare that climate change will be disastrous, and the main cause is people activity. "Sentence was pronounced U.S. senators from the Republican, James Inhofe, who is also the Chairman of Environment and Public Works Committee U.S. Senate, a year ago.

The statement was reinforced by the statement of NASA Director Michael Griffin in an interview with a local radio in the U.S. recently, which shows the director's doubts that global warming is the biggest challenge that humans have to overcome. In the interview, excerpts of statements one of which Griffin is widely quoted, "The climate of the earth today is the best climate that we never had."

Is global warming really is the result of human activity that is too greedy to exploit the earth and careless maintain the natural balance? Is global warming and climate change is the most important thing that must be overcome man?

Inhofe presented a variety of facts and quotations that support his argument. According to him, the media played an important role in the issues that animate this is not true. He also expressed some penelusurannya of the report's leading media such as Newsweek, Time Magazine, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and also the journal Science News. Found, these media in the era of the 1900s it reported concerns about the coming ice age, not heating or melting of ice. Until the period 1920-1930's until the late 1970s, the leading media in the U.S. is still very vigorous preaching and report hazards earth changes into a ball of ice.

He also belittles the Kyoto Protocol, a protocol was signed by most countries on this earth underneath to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases forming in which the U.S. refused to sign, as the agreement and the solution has no meaning in order to reduce emissions of harmful gases into the Earth's atmosphere. According to him, the most effective way to reduce these gases is the use of gas cleaning equipment and more efficient technologies for gas pressure is scattered into space.

But Inhofe claims that political motives could not dampen the global movement around the world that the threat of global warming is very real and must be fought from now by all parties. Inhofe, Republican politicians, as well as U.S. President George W. Bush is also Republican, certainly not in their interests disturbed disturbed because of the need to suppress greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. are largely produced from fossil-energy power plants (oil, coal).

Not only Inhofe and Bush is being "ignorant" to climate change. More than 17 thousand scientists - two thousand more of them are physicists, geofisikawan, climate experts, meteorologists, and environmentalists, who signed a petition circulated by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine in the U.S.. One sentence in the petition stated, "There is no scientific evidence that the release of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and gas-other greenhouse gases that cause acute warming of the earth temperature and damage to the Earth's climate."

In spite of the fact and a political statement expressed above, the following facts speak far more powerful and real, showing where the changes in the earth's climate will be headed and empty.

The facts

We start from a far with us, the Arctic Ocean. The ocean is largely recognized as the ocean ice. Scientists who studied the changes in sea ice this summer recorded an increase of two times faster than the warming at the global level. Since 1980, sea ice is located in the Arctic regions of Europe has melted between 20-30 percent.

Still in Europe, the mountains that had Alpens mostly snow covered with snow deposits decline severe. Eight of the nine areas of the glacier / glaciers show a significant degree of damage and within a century, has lost a third of the ice area.

Not only in Europe, the entire plateau in the world who have been known to have a tip of the iceberg melted, too. Snow on the highest mountain peak in Africa, Kilimanjaro, every month did not melt less than 300 cubic meters. Mount is located in Tanzania is suffering from severe snow baldness when comparing aerial photographs taken in 1974, 1990, and 2001. In the observation period of a century, the snow on top of the mountain melt until it reaches 82%. When the snow is no longer at home perched on top of the mountain, the mountain's name may have changed, because of Kilimanjaro in the local language means white mountain or mountain that glowed.

Let's move to the area that gave birth to many artists ball, South America. Snow in countries such as the high berdataran like Argentina, Peru, Chile also dropped dramatically. Andes Mountains, one of the world's snow paradise, experiencing snow melting at the top of the mountain which is very significant. Between the years 1963 to 1978, the snow melted on average 4 meters per year, and since 1995 until now, melting snow, reach speeds of 30.1 meters per year in the entire region containing the glacier. While in Venezuela, the country largest producer of Miss World, the 6 glaciers are owned by the country in 1972, now only two more, and will lose at least 10 years from now.

Consequences of the melting snow is the increased sea levels, first in the region. Brazilian football in the country, lost coastlines into the sea ranges from an average of 1.8 meters per year in the period between 1915 and 1950 and increased to 2.4 meters per year on a ten-year period between 1985-1995.

What happened in Asia, also in Indonesia, due to global warming? Similar to what happened in other continents, snow, snow in the highlands of Asia experienced a drastic melting and dramatic. Himalayas, the highest mountain in the world to be a bag of frozen water on the "roof of the sky" continues to lose snow consistently. Glacier-glacier in the Himalayas spread in countries such as India, Tibet, Bhutan, China, degraded very quickly. Seven major rivers in Asia-eyed water from the Himalayas namely Ganga, Indus, Brahmaputra, Mekong, Thanlwin, Yangtze and Yellow River threatened their existence resulting in hundreds of millions of people in the region along the flow of the rivers that.

Not only in the South Asia region, the snow in Central Asia also continued to disappear one by one. That happens in Puncak Jaya, Papua, the only high mountain areas in Indonesia that has snow. If aerial photographs in 1972 showed the top of the mountain which is almost entirely covered with snow, now only the top of the mountain contains a mere rocks and trees. That means no more snow there.

Melting ice uncovered in the new is part of what really happened. Based on the latest reports Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released last year 2007, 30 snow in the mountains around the world lost a thickness of more than half a meter up to the year 2005 alone. The last two years are not in the report.

Consequences and Risk

Since energy is conserved, this snow by itself is not lost and only changes form. Like ice in a glass, when he was hit by heat and melt, the volume of water is not reduced or increased, but only changed. Thus, the first consequence of rising temperatures that melted the snow, the earth and water deposits had been a growing increase in the water on the earth's surface. This increase can be detected in all corners of the earth and proven through a number of aerial photographs that compare an area in the past decades with contemporary conditions.

However, the consequences of rising global temperature is not that simple. Ecological changes that occur in an environment where humans and other living things live with the terrible effects for mankind. Laws of physics states, winds moving from a cold place to a warmer place. Well, the difference in temperature of a region with other areas of extreme at the same time has triggered hurricanes, storms, and tornadoes become more frequent than a few years ago. Countries in North America, Central, South and Caribbean, Europe, and South and East Asia have felt the impact of this hurricane. Typhoon which has the names of the beautiful people hit the whole earth is at once mournful and deadly.

Flow movement of water not only brings flood disaster, but also accompanied by landslides due to deforestation that took place every minute. In the same time, one side of the world is threatened by drought and fire, the other places hit by hurricanes, floods and landslides that hundreds of millions of miserable human beings.

Consequences on the Local Level
Drought in the area of Gunung Kidul, for example, may have become a fact that goes plural every year and has since tens of years it happened. However, water shortages experienced by residents in the slopes of Mount Merapi last five years, for example, of a new fact which shows how the water more difficult to obtain.

Difficulty vegetable farmers on the slopes of Mount Merbabu for example, is something that still sound familiar. Grojogan Sewu was still spilling water. But compared to fifteen years ago, for example, Grojogan it now has turned into nothing more than a shower. Some twenty years to come, he may just stay a trickle.

That's just from the scarcity of water. In terms of climate change, all cities and regions in Indonesia became the victim. In central Java, for example, Kaliurang in Jogjakarta, Tawangmangu in Karanganyar, or Bandungan in Semarang, now no longer visited by tourists because of the cool air and cold, but because kelatahan and the stigma attached terlanjut as a recreational area. That's it. In the past, in these areas is always a cold mist descended every morning throughout the year. Now, he could only be found several times throughout the year, and even then depends on the season.

At Puncak Jaya, Papua, the snow is no longer perched on the peak since a few years ago. This marks the end of the era of the existence of only one snowy areas in Indonesia. And this is well proved, that the earth is getting hot is not a trite but true fact of the actual.

Ironically, the situation is more hot air, and people looking for ways to cool them, but only for themselves. Air cooling is a pragmatic option for this, but it means the program can only be reached by a layer of middle class people up. The poor certainly can not escape from the heat.

Ironically, the use of air conditioners are more massive and intensive in most urban households accumulated earth bring forth the fact that more heat due to gases generated by air conditioners is not environmentally friendly. It had been so, the use of intensive air conditioning was also triggered increasing electricity demand growing, which again ironically, while electricity is produced using fossil fuels are not friendly to the environment and provide the largest contribution to global warming.

This vicious cycle leads clearly the poorest communities and do not have access to economic resources sufficient to be a victim. The number of people who increasingly excluded from this circle will undoubtedly continue to grow because of disagreement and agreement on concrete efforts to combat climate change is having an acute impasse.