Global Warming
For some years we have been hearing the phrase global warming, and that it is something that we have to stop. By inference we understand that the planet is warming up and that it has consequences on the climate that can put us at risk.
Understanding what a phrase means does not mean understanding its implications.
Global warming means that the average temperature of the planet is increasing, and we know that this time human activity is causing the increase in temperature affecting the balance of the climate
The planet in its history has had important climatic changes based on natural processes as we mentioned in the previous chapter
Since the end of the last ice age around 12.000 years ago we have enjoyed a stable and unchanged climate, but based on the data collected we have that from 1940 the temperature has begun to increase steadily and linearly which
It implies that something is happening that affects the temperature of the planet.
