climate change

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has been awarded in its sixth edition to Christopher Field, co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that deals with Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability , for discovering the importance of ecosystems and their proper management as powerful tools in the fight against climate change. Thanks to the work of this scientist, the effect of deforestation, agriculture and, in general, alterations in plant cover, on the global climate has been quantified. These discoveries, in the long run, have also made it possible to predict the impact of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems.

A new calculation on climate change has warned of a greater increase in temperature than expected in less than 100 years. The key to this new research published recently in the journal Nature lies in the role of clouds in global warming, and the impact of increased atmospheric CO2 on global warming has been studied for decades. However, there are still many unknowns and many factors to analyze.

In 1 billion years, there will be no liquid water on the planet's surface.

Thanks to observations made over more than three years by ESA's CryoSat satellite, scientists have been able to verify that Antarctica is losing more and more ice water. According to the data, the frozen continent would be losing more than 150 cubic kilometers of ice every 365 days, much more than estimated in the last measurement. Sea level depends directly on the amount of ice accumulated at the poles.

The Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has organized an exhibition that can be visited until October 5 on the Avenida de la Constitución in Seville and which seeks to show the changes generated by climate change and how scientists strive to investigate global warming.

The effects of global warming on food are poorly understood, despite the interest they may have. An analysis of the records of the attributes of the apples of the Fuji variety collected since 1970 in two orchards in Japan reveals that they are becoming less acidic, have less firmness and their core has become more watery. The study, conducted by the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Japan (NARO) suggests that the qualities of apples are undergoing long-term changes due to climate change.

In just ten years, the town of Kivalina, on the edge of the Bering Sea in Alaska, could become the first population in the United States to disappear underwater due to rising sea levels due to climate change.

Global warming worries scientists a lot, because not only does it affect the heat or cold that humans suffer, but its consequences can be truly catastrophic. An international investigation with the participation of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has found that the sea level could rise 20 meters by the end of the century due to the thaw.