Friday, February 29, 2008

Adapting to climate change

Since a decade environment communities has recognized that climate change will lead to an increase in the frequency and intensity of nature disasters in the future, needs a universal method to respond and continue its effort to help vurnerable people on how to adapt with the situation and to reduce the risk.

Climate change created more extreme weather and more disasters world wide, millions of people on the earth are suffering from the consequences, this fenomena dispite of global warming as a result of the accumulation of solar radiation trapped within the earth`s atmosphere.

The radiation emitted by the sun, reflected by the surface of the earth is blocked and absorbed by the atmospheric gases and that is what is called the greenhouse effect.

Its gases are associated with fossil fuel burning, usage of electronic devices, deforestation, forest fire and ilegal logging.

Beside carbon dioxide the temperature increase is also causing the melting of glaciers and ice caps, since 1960 almost 10 percent ice covering the earth has decreased.

Expert of environment have predicted that snow would blanket the himalayas will melt in 2100 and the sea level will rise, current 100 years there had been a sea level rise of 10-25 centimetres and an estimate 2000 island in indonesia will sink by 2030.

The effect of this fenomena are very real and have been scientifically analyzed and many unpredictable disasters will come in the future, needs awarenes from the nations to keep our earth.