These last days, television showed continuously and with a huge smile of joy, a unique phenomenon. The Perito Moreno glacier, in the month of July (winter here in the South), is having great detachment and breakage.
is a unique spectacle, but that should only happen during the summer!
People living in the area of \u200b\u200btourism, is very happy because this phenomenon attracts tourists, but I think we should see that there is something much more important than winning a little more money with the tourists, or not?
Here I give Greenpeace published an article about glaciers:
With a stunning photographic evidence, we can see the striking decrease of Viedma Glacier, located in the province of Santa Cruz, which could disappear in the next decades to continue trend of increase in global temperature caused by global climate change.
image Viedma Glacier, virtually disappeared in connection with the view presented in 1930, renew our call attention to the dramatic process of global warming and our demand for the adoption of urgent measures on energy efficiency. Comparison
Viedma Glacier in 1930 and now.
Santa Cruz, Argentina
Viedma glacier system belongs to the Southern Patagonian Icefield (HPS) which covers the southern mountain range over 350 kilometers. This field is off 13 large glaciers and 190 smaller glaciers.
these trends continue, expected to increase over the next few years, many of the smaller glaciers in Patagonia could disappear within the next 20 or 30 years.
Viedma Glacier is a prime example of what is happening in all glaciers in the South, the mass loss is evident when comparing the photographs of 1930 to the present. Scientists estimate that the Viedma glacier has lost volume in their mass / height, about 50 meters thick and about 1 kilometer in length. A similar situation was reported for images of the year 2004 in relation to the Upsala Glacier.
"Glaciers are a real thermometer of Climate Change, the stunning Glacier Viedma current trend marks the glaciers will irreversibly in Argentina to continue the increase in global temperature of the Earth," said Rosario Espina, coordinator Campaign Against Climate Change Greenpeace Argentina.
late last year the World Meteorological Organization confirmed that the decade 1998-2007 was the warmest on record so far and as published by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA) in 2007 surpassed 1998 as the second warmest year ever recorded, with a global average temperature of 14.57 ° C. The average global temperature of 2007 was 0.8 ° C above average between 1881 and 1910 (pre-industrial).
" The world has eight years left to reverse the current trend of rising global temperatures . If urgent measures are not taken in the short term, cross a dangerous threshold to cause an increase of more than 2 ° C above pre-industrial temperatures, "said Espina.
Our proposal is to achieve an overall reduction in emissions Greenhouse gases 50% by 2050 in order to stabilize climate during this century. The reduction of emissions must begin quickly so that the maximum global temperature increase does not exceed 2 ° C, the peak temperature should occur by 2015 and begin to decline and stabilize for the remainder of the century.
"To achieve these goals is essential that actions in the coming years will be drastic reduction in emissions, energy efficiency is a powerful tool that allows reductions in the short term," .
Y. .. What are we doing?
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