The global warming is a given and climate change is present and evolving with unpredictable severity. In general, we continue our daily routines in the same way, using the same energy, the same products, the same cars, feeding ourselves in the same way, deforestation continues at the same rates, maybe even higher in some cases.

"Scientists have a moral obligation to warn humanity about any major threat. From the data we have, it is clear that we are facing a climate emergency. Despite 40 years of major international negotiations, we generally continue our business as usual and have essentially failed to address the crisis. Climate change has arrived and is accelerating faster than many scientists expected," climate experts say.

This book attempts a comprehensive approach to the phenomenon of greenhouse effect and climate change, which is evident to have caused and still threatens the extinction of life on the planet and the disappearance of human civilization. It extensively discusses the impacts of the phenomenon, such as temperature increase, melting of ice, rising sea levels, extreme natural phenomena, population migrations, emergence of new diseases, etc. It also evaluates the efforts of the international community to address the phenomenon.

CONTENTS

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

1. EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AND ITS COMPOSITION

Origin of the atmosphere

Composition of the atmosphere

Atmospheric layers

1. GREENHOUSE EFFECT PHENOMENON

1. GREENHOUSE GASES AND THEIR CHANGES IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA

1. CLIMATE FORMATION

Dating methods

Milankovitch cycles

1. EL NINO PHENOMENON

CHAPTER 2

IMPACTS OF THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT PHENOMENON

Temperature rise

Ice melting - Sea level rise

Ocean warming and acidification

Natural disasters - extreme weather events

Biodiversity - species extinction

Impact on agriculture - famines

Drought

Diseases - viruses - mutations

Environmental refugees - Climate conflicts

Impacts on tourism

System feedbacks

Economic impacts

CHAPTER 3

Scenarios of climate change

CHAPTER 4

Climate conferences - results

Kyoto Protocol

Paris Agreement

Mass extinctions

CHAPTER 5

Chaos theory - Butterfly effect

The worst-case scenario