[Health promotion and climate change].

نویسنده

  • Jordi Sunyer
چکیده

El cambio climático, su origen antropogénico y su presencia a pesar de cualquier acción de reparo son hechos incontrovertibles para un gran número de sociedades cientı́ficas, ası́ como para el Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) auspiciado por Naciones Unidas. El IPCC-2007 ha sintetizado los resultados de 23 modelos de circulación general atmosférica-oceánica para predecir el futuro del incremento de las temperaturas terrestres basado en seis escenarios de emisiones de gases invernadero. Concluyen que habrá un aumento medio de la temperatura de la superficie terrestre de entre 1,1 y 6,4 1C para el año 2100. Los modelos también predicen un aumento del nivel del mar de entre 18 y 59 cm. Ya ha ocurrido un aumento de 0,76 1C, e incluso aunque se hubiesen parado la totalidad de las emisiones en el año 2000 habrı́a un aumento adicional de 0,6 1C en el año 2050, un total de 1,36 1C debido a las emisiones producidas entre el inicio de la revolución industrial y el año 2000. Sin embargo, los datos recientes sobre emisiones confirman que han aumentado notablemente desde el año 2000, lo que hace que se estén cumpliendo los peores escenarios (y trayectorias) del IPCC-2007. Los datos de emisiones y otros hechos, como la observación en 2008 de que la biodiversidad de los vertebrados ha descendido en más de una tercera parte en solo 35 años (una tasa de extinción 10.000 veces más rápida que en ningún registro fósil) debido en gran parte a la crisis ambiental, han llevado a que reputados climatólogos consideren que las predicciones del IPCC-2007 son demasiado conservadoras. Las razones mayores, por el amplio margen de incertidumbre, provienen de la dificultad de modelar fenómenos climatológicos cuyas pequeñas variaciones pueden producir grandes cambios, como el grado de deshielo de los polos

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Gaceta sanitaria

دوره 24 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010