Global Warming

Eduardo Ferreira nº
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 What is Global Warming?

Global warming is a climatic phenomenon of large,

an average temperature increase of the overall
area that is increasing in the last 150 years.
     Climate models referenced by the IPCC
projected that global temperatures will increase the
surface probably in the range between 1.1 and 6.4 °
C between 1990 and 2100.

IPCC-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

 Causes of Global Warming

• Greenhouse effect

• Destruction of the Ozone Layer

• Air Pollution

•   Polluting sources
Greenhouse effect
• The greenhouse gases are gaseous substances that
absorbs the infra-red radiation emitted mainly by the
surface of the Earth and disable the escape into space.

• This prevents the loss of the heat into space, keeping

Earth warm. The greenhouse effect is a natural
phenomenon.
This happens since the formation of the
earth and is necessary for the maintenance
of life on the planet, because without it the
average temperature of Earth would be -18
°C instead of the current +17 ° C.
 Destruction of the Ozone Layer

Destruição da Camada do
Ozono
 Destruction of the Ozone
Layer

• As we know, it was due to the evolution of

photosynthesis and oxygen-producing
organisms that the Earth had gained a
stratospheric layer that was built over 450
million years - the ozone layer.
•
•  The presence of this layer of ozone in the
stratosphere is vital to life on land, since the
ozone absorbs ultraviolet radiation that would
otherwise reach the surface and caused damage
in both animals and plants.
 Implications of the destruction of the
ozone layer on human health and
other forms of life:

•  30% increase in skin cancer (non-fatal);

• Damage to the eyes, such as the onset of
cataracts;
• Effect of the immune system;
• Disappearance of species and genetic
mutations (in the less advanced beings such
as plankton and plants).
• Changes in climate.
 Air Pollution

Poluição Atmosférica
• The increase in atmospheric concentrations of
these substances, their deposition in soil, on
plants and materials is responsible for damage to
health, reduction of agricultural production,
damage to forests, degradation of buildings and
works of art and a general rise in the imbalance
ecosystems.
 Polluting sources
•     the burning of urban waste, industrial, agricultural and
forest land, often performed in uncontrolled situations. The
burning of waste explosives, resins, paints, plastics, tires is
responsible for the emission of hazardous compounds;

•    are forest fires in recent years is responsible for significant

emissions of CO2;

•       the use of fertilizers and excessive concentration of agro-

livestock are the main contributors to emissions of methane,
ammonia and N2O;

•        the industries of non-metallic minerals, steel, the quarries

and areas under construction are important sources of the
emission of particles;

•       the natural causes such as volcanic explosions.

 Conclusion

• In this work on global warming, I

tried to alert
people and the world to change the
Earth, it is our only home so we have
to preserve it...

So let us all unite and work towards

a world more healthy and cleaner.