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Showing posts with label Global Warming. Show all posts

Thursday, November 17, 2011

What is Global Warming ?

Global warming is basically a phenomenon of global temperature increase from year to year due to the greenhouse effect caused by increasing emissions of gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), dinitrooksida (N2O) and CFC so that solar energy trapped in Earth's atmosphere . The literature shows a global temperature rise - including Indonesia - which occurs in the range 1.5 to 40 Celsius by the end of the 21st century.

Global warming resulting in widespread and serious impacts for bio-geophysical environment (such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels, expanding deserts, increased rainfall and flooding, climate change, extinction of certain flora and fauna, fauna and migratory pests, etc. ).