Havana, Cuba. - Winter is still mild in countries like Denmark.
However, the dramatic tone of the Conference on Climate Change
taking place in Copenhagen is more likely to be hot than cold.
There is widespread uncertainty about the agreements to be
adopted and the future course of humanity. Humankind is increasingly
aware of the abrupt ups and downs of a nature victim of man's
onslaughts.
The reports presented to what could be called the first chapter
of that meeting have already been published. Specialists,
scientists and environmentalist organizations have attended
by the thousands. The main event was saved for the last day,
December 18, with the presence of dozens of Heads of State
and Government.
The World Meteorological Organization was adamant in its report
about the current decade being the warmest in history. Moreover,
it assured that 2009 will break every known record since weather
conditions were first gauged 160 years ago.
The Summit heard this information in the second day of an
agenda overwhelmed by speeches and papers that plead for a
new global treaty on climate change.
The Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization,
Michel Jarraud, assured that the decade 2000-2009 is probably
be the hottest on record. It will be even hotter than the
previous one, which in turn had been hotter than the 80’s
of last century.
The latest studies also show that temperature has been increasingly
rising in the last 4 decades. The fundamental cause is the
combination of the El Niño event with greenhouse gases
generated by human activity.
In the debates, there seems to be consensus on the fact that
temperatures have been higher than normal in most continents
and that the tendency leans toward further warming.
According to specialists consulted by BBC in the Copenhagen
Summit, these data confirm that global warming is actually
happening. These reports are a mouth gag to those who spread
misleading E-mails in Great Britain. The messages caused some
skeptics to accuse the scientists of adulterating information
on the seriousness of climate change events.
What no one seems to doubt is that in these days the temperature
in the halls of the Copenhagen Summit will rise sky-high.
Translated by: Pedro
A. Fanego
( 03.12.2009 10:13 AM )
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