03/11/2012
In this blog my objective is to analyze climate changes, its causes and consequences, but before I would like to highlight the lack of commitment by governments and international organizations that are not working enough.
In this blog my objective is to analyze climate changes, its causes and consequences, but before I would like to highlight the lack of commitment by governments and international organizations that are not working enough.
Climate change are sudden changes
due to heating of the planet’s atmosphere; this phenomenon leads to the melting
of polar ice and other consequences that are disastrous for detecting ecosystem
like for examples floods and extinction of animal species.
Scientific studies are showing that
climate change is accelerating faster than expected and it’ s more necessary
for us to do something because unfortunately our governments think about their interests for first.
In 2009, in the city of Copenhagen,
there was the 15° Conference of the United Nations about climate changes which
was attended by representatives of many states like Barack Obama, Angela
Merkel, Gordon Brown, Wen Jibao and many others: the objective was to take
actions to stop global warming and extend the objectives of the Kyoto Protocol
to the 2020 or 2050. The Copenhagen
Conference ended with a minimum commitment by governments and also there wasn’t
any real obligation to cut CO2 emissions. Many ONG has told about this
Conference like victory of words, not of facts.
In 2011 the International Institute
for Sustainable Development (IISD) realized another Conference of United
Nations in the city of Durban. Here there’s been a turning point because
nations get important decisions that could bring to concrete negotiations about
climate change, for example it was created the “Green Fund” with the objective
to mobilize $ 100 billion. The Conference of Durban is been more concrete
because it has given more importance to the points of Kyoto Protocol, but also
here the decisions of the governments seems like only words.
This year, in June, there’s been the
last Conference of United Nations about climate change, in the city of Rio De
Janeiro: it’s been a big disappointment because it’ s a document that contains
few concrete things and many promises of commitment but there aren’t rules or obligations to find a solution and
to build a better world. The Greenpeace’s president has considered this
Conference as a total failure.
With this hint to some Conferences of
United Nations about climate change, it’ s not my intention to denigrate the
job of international organizations but we can’t loose other time to talk, it’s necessary to act. The
governments of all the world have to understand that the solution of disastrous
consequences of climate change can’t wait and must be the priority.
Isabella Juvarra
The words
“climate change” indicate changes in the global
climate of the earth: temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, ocean
temperatures, distribution and development of plants and animals.
Climate
change is due to natural causes but for the last 150 years the scientific
community considers them to be mainly due to the action of man in the form of
alteration of the greenhouse effect.
Greenhouse
effect is synonymous of global warming and it’ s caused by anthropogenic
pollution.
The largest
producers of pollutants are especially large factories, followed by emissions
from road transport (buses, cars, motorcycles, agricultural vehicles and
equipment for construction work).
In this way
there is the formation of lethal gases.
Lethal
gases such as carbon monoxide and benzene are responsible of smog over cities.
Other gases
are responsible for the greenhouse effect: methane and carbon dioxide (co2) which
is considered the main culprit.
Also the
methane is dangerous because it is produced by the boilers and burnt is emitted
in atmosphere in the form of carbon monoxide.
Carbon
dioxide is not harmful in the right quantities because it promotes
photosynthesis but, in excessive quantities, it leads to serious consequences.
All this
concentration of gases in atmosphere acts like a “greenhouse”: sunlight can
reach on the earth but when they turn into infrared, they are unable to return
to the atmosphere so they’re trapped on earth causing the temperature increase.
Air
pollution is one of the great problems of our century: the good thing is that
we can stop it, but we can not go back.
Isabella
Juvarra
17/11/2012
In these last days the weather has devastated
the North and central Italy: heavy rain, storms, floods and flooding. But all
the violence of these disturbances has a reason: climate change. Just as the
hurricane Sandy, also disturbances that have affected Liguria, Toscana, Umbria,
Veneto and Lazio owe their violence to the global rise in temperatures. Surely
the weather in these areas has caused many floods due to disruption hydrological
of Italy, to the lack of knowledge and management of the territory, but it is
certain that this type of atmospheric phenomena are more frequent because of
climate change. Greenpeace says that extreme weather events such as those of
these days will become more frequent and violent if we do not do something as
soon as possible. The statistics are very clear: in 1980 were recorded 400
events all over the world, while 30 years later after (today) they were
recorded almost 1000, so because of climate change, violence rainfall, flooding
and landslides have nearly tripled. The latest report of the European Environment
affirmed his message to governments: the majority of European citizens living
in the city and it’s necessary to gear up to tackle climate change. These
phenomena are likely to increase so governments must start investing adaptation
measures because the longer we wait, more expensive it will be to adapt and
threats to citizens and the economy will increase. What remains today are the
images we see on television: many people have uninhabitable homes, the
continuous rains that overflows rivers have destroyed everything. I think that
as long as these misfortunes captain in other places and to other people, it’s
very easy to push the issue because we always think that these things don’t happen
to us, instead we urgently have to think that these weather events due to
climate change can happen anywhere and to anyone. I trust a lot in the good
sense of people and as always I consider governments accountable and guilty
because they continue to think quietly to their interests. When our planet will
be destroyed and it will be too late to do something, their money will not be
able to buy a new one.
Isabella Juvarra
www.greenpeace.org
24/11/2012
Today I would like to explain some of the consequences that
are already in place if we don't solve the problem of climate change because
this would cost in lives and money.
Global warming affects on economy with a bill of 400,000
dead and 1,200 billion dollars in damage each year. This warning comes from the Report Climate
Vulnerability Monitor, prepared by ONG Dara and commissioned by the Climate
Vulnerable Forum, which brings together 20 countries threatened by global
warming and that prefigures worst-case scenarios for the near future.
In fact, in
the near future, the victims of the oil companies could reach 100 million.
The study on climate change held for more than 50
scientists, has estimated that in the world today 400,000 people die from causes
related to global warming.
Climate change in developing countries, affecting especially
for damages to agriculture and this results in a greater number of deaths from
malnutrition and diseases related to lack of food.
There are
new and alarming studies because in 2060 the Earth's temperature will rise by 4
degrees and this will be a tragedy for the poor countries and other
consequences will be:
-decrease in food supplies
-rising sea level,
which means flooding of coastal cities
-increasing risks to
food production
-heat waves
-increased tropical cyclones
-water scarcity
-irreversible loss of biodiversity
including systems of coral reefs.
The situation is obviously very serious and 2060 is not that
far.
Isabella Juvarra
www.pik-potsdam.de
8/12/2012
This week
I’ve decided to tackle a subject that I consider fundamental and probably
influence climate change: chemtrails.
The wakes
of aircraft are contrails and this is a natural phenomenon because the hot
gases ( a mixture of water vapour and gases) that come out from aircraft
engines, are in contact with the cold air of the atmosphere and trigger the
process of condensation: the water vapour is transformed into small ice
crystals subject to evaporation. In nature contrails dissolve in about 30-50
seconds and therefore can not be long. Seeing a white trail in the sky, we
might immediately think that it is a normal contrail that marks the passage of
an airliner, but looking good encounter any problems. Contrails we see today
are very different from 20 years ago when dissolved immediately, but today the
trails are wide and very frequently persist for hours and expand forming a
white state.
These
trails were spotted outside the routes of airliners, a straight improbable for
airliners and in air spaces that are not allowed to civilian traffic and sales.
Since 1996
have appeared these strange streaks and are present in all countries of the
world.
Scientists,
researchers and citizens made chemical analysis of soil, dust and water areas
underlying airspace sprayed with contrails. These analyzes ensure the presence
and a high concentration of chemicals such as: salts of barium, aluminum oxide,
calcium, potassium, magnesium, quartz but also titanium, bromide and bacteria
that normally found in the higher layers of atmosphere and incorporated by
these aerosol chemicals are transported to shore with serious consequences for
our health. The most common symptoms are: respiratory diseases, muscle
inflammation, contamination by unknown bacteria, headaches, depression,
dramatic increase of cancer and leukaemia, but also environmental pollution.
But what types of aircraft expand these dangerous substances in the air?
Several witnesses
said they saw chemtrails sprayed from white airplanes without livery
identification, aircraft similar to this:
Planes
observed were identified as military tankers, which are airplanes identical to
airliners but within them there are no seats but tanks that are used to refuel
in flight fuel for aircraft such as military fighters or bombers. There are no
official answers about the presence of these aircraft.
Finally the
questions are: what is the purpose of chemtrails? Why governments and
institutions are silent? Are there agreements military or other?
Officially
chemtrails do not exist because no one has ever admitter their existence, but
it’s our right to know what is happening.
Scientists
and researchers have theorized some assumptions:
climate
control, military implications of H.A.A.R.P. (High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program), involvement of multinationals.
Chemtrails in the sky after the passage of some
airplanes photographed near Trento 2 weeks ago.
Example of clouds formation probably due to climate
experiments photographed near Padova 2 months ago.
Isabella
Juvarra
I agree with you, I think that governments must do much more to protect the heart and if they don’t do this is just because of economic interests. As everybody knows economic issues are always at the first place, in the entire world. Western countries that started to implement the Kyoto protocol strongly criticize the new world economies because they are polluting the environment in a strong way without thinking that a big part of the multinational companies working in China, India and in many countries of Africa came from the western world. I think that we forgot the broken gusher polluting the ocean in the American coast or the effects of the “green revolution” in India. In my opinion economic interests rule the world so we have to start changing things for first because we are part of those states that make promises not keeping them!!We have to start changing our way of leaving. When we speak about climate change we have to consider also the way to use the land. Today almost everybody use weed killers, chemical plant foods and pesticides that irreparably damage the land and our health. These entire staffs contaminate the air annexing its action with that of other toxic gases. Are we not behaving us as the governments? How can we pretend that things have to change if we are not changing ourselves for first?
RispondiEliminaThe power of money and economy is blocking any possible way to solve the problem of climate changing. The situation is getting heavier day by day. We all can see that the climate and the world itself is hopelessly changing. Hurricanes, floods and drought are killing thousands of people every year all over the world. The big countries are not doing what the should do to stop all this. It seems that they can't understand what it is really going on. Maybe they do not want to understand, because they are interested in getting everyday richer and richer. Even the United Nations are unable to activate a strong and effective way to solve the issue of climate change.
RispondiEliminaIn my opinion there are two way to at least try to fix the problem. Firstly, it is necessary for NGOs to gain an active role into the UN. With the help of these organizations all countries can find a common and binding agreement to make the world a better and safest place for everyone. In practice, they should start to think about the next generations and they definitely should start to cooperate each other.
Secondly, the other way I was referring to is related to the individual sphere of everyone. I think that if we really want to make the difference and try to change the situation, we should start doing something in our everyday life. We should stop wasting things and becoming more kind and respectful for our planet. I think that we should make our life "greener", because the change can start from us only.