Clock Ticking on Climate Change Prevention

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new synthesis report adds urgency to the need to cut additional greenhouse gas pollution

November 2, 2014 |By David Biello

I got this article from a web page called Scientific American, here it is the link:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/clock-ticking-on-climate-change-prevention/

This article talks about the climate change,  so I would classify it in: Earth and Environment

Summary

The Earth is getting more and more polluted, and we have got the necessity of doing something to stop it.  The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has done a summary of all the problems we have to solve, but this one has been the same since 2007. What has actually changed is pollution in Earth.

Glossary

-Greenhouse gases: those ones that case global warming. àgasos que generen efectehivernacle.

-Drought: lack of water àsequera.

-Crop failures à mala collita.

-Budget: an estimate of expected expenses. To plan or deal with amounts. àpressupost, predicciód’algunacosa future (calculs).

-Stakes: a stickpointedatoneend for drivingintotheground as a boundarymark, part of a fence... à estaca

Critical review

I firmly think that climate change is a big problem, and our efforts should be harder to try to eradicate it. We have always heard about recycling and using public transport, but I consider that society still has not noticed that we have got a problem, and this problem has been here for a long time.

Also, I think the fact that the idea of taking care of the environment hasn’t changed since 2007 is a little bit worrying. What does this mean? Aren’t there more solutions for our planet? Of course there are, but we have to work harder and faster, because as the solutions don’t come to our minds, pollution keeps rising and turning dangerous for us. I say dangerous and I mean it, because if we keep going that way the sea levels will raise and places like Madagascar or the north and south poles will end up like submarine islands.

I consider that people are not conscious of that risk and a proof of this is that we have polluted more than a half of the established budget. That budget was supposed to indicate the amount of pollution we could produce, but we are polluting without caring, and this cannot be this way.

In conclusion, I hope that the meeting in Lima will result productive and we will come up with some solutions to solve that huge problem, to save our lifes.

 Written by Claudia Maldonado