This is generated as certain gases in the atmosphere lower layers (carbon dioxide, methane, etc.) capture part of the solar radiation released by the Earth in the form of heat, thus creating a true \u201cglobal greenhouse\u201d that alters the natural climate balance.<\/p>\n This change is caused by the\u00a0release of greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide), generated by fossil fuel burning, deforestation, and other human actions.<\/strong><\/p>\n All this seems to be outlining a merely abstract and statistical map of the problem, but the\u00a0consequences<\/strong>\u00a0are clear:\u00a0recurrence of\u00a0tornados and hurricanes, suffocating heat waves, droughts, glacier recession and floods, increase of infectious diseases, food\u00a0 Of course,\u00a0the effects are even worse in poorer countries<\/strong>, which lack adequate infrastructure and resources to control the impact, and which suffer the consequences of the damages caused by more industrialized countries. However, the effects of climate change have been felt in the developed world as well. In 2003, in Europe, over 40,000 people suffered the heat waves.<\/p>\n All the undesirable consequences mentioned in this paper suggest that thetechnical imagination of modern man follows a single and unlimited path: progress.<\/strong>\u00a0We would be obliged to simply watch the results as outside, passive spectators. \u00a0But\u00a0this ever-forward march entails the<\/strong>\u00a0risk of mortgaging the future of upcoming generations due to the irreparable damage caused to the environment.<\/strong>\u00a0Thereis no ethical neutrality in\u00a0 <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Climate change\u00a0is the potentiation of weather phenomena. The most famous one is\u00a0global warming, which consists in the steady rise of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and ocean temperatures, as a result of the\u00a0greenhouse effect. This is generated as certain gases in the atmosphere lower layers (carbon dioxide, methane, etc.) capture part of the solar radiation released by… Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eco-patagonia"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/cambioclimatico_efectoinvernadero2.jpg\" "\\"The")
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At the end of last year,\u00a0the World Meteorological Organization asserted that the decade of 1998-2007 was the warmest one registered so far\u00a0<\/strong>and, according to the data published by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA), the year 2007 surpassed 1998 as the second warmest year registered until now, with a global mean temperature of 14.57\u00b0 C (58.22\u00b0 F). The global mean temperature of 2007 exceeds by 0.8 \u00b0 C (33.44\u00b0 F) the average between 1881 and 1910 (pre-industrial era). At this pace,\u00a0mean temperature rises expected for the future could easily reach 2 or 3 degrees by mid-century.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Members](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/cambioclimatico_osos_peligro.jpg\" "\\"Members")
shortage<\/strong>, among others. In addition, these changes could lead to the\u00a0extinction of some species<\/strong>\u00a0that will not be able to survive the variations of the ecosystem in which they live.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/cambioclimatico_sequia.jpg\" "\\"The")
Many scientists claim that\u00a0climate change was responsible for such natural cataclysms as the \u201cTsunami\u201d in Indonesia and Katrina Hurricane in the south of the United States.<\/strong>\u00a0The so-called\u201cclimate refugees\u201d<\/strong>, who must abandon their homes due to the action of these phenomena, make up a new social category as victims of environmental catastrophes.<\/p>\n![\"Victims](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/cambioclimatico_katrina2.jpg\" "\\"Victims")
<\/strong>technology; it is not something that can be used for better or worse according to man\u2019s will. Negative (as well as positive) consequences are inevitable. We are now talking about how much man is willing to sacrifice of their natural heritage, since it is evident that\u00a0a given level of environmental pollution is tolerated for the sake of technological progress.<\/strong><\/p>\n