global warming Global warming is a term used to refer to the phenomenon of the increase in global average temperature of Earth's

atmosphere and oceans, possibly reaching the level of the warming of the medieval era in the mid-twentieth century, to exceed from entonces.2 All data collection from representative samples of ice, the growth rings of trees, etc.., Indicate that temperatures were warmer during medieval times, cooled to low values during the XVII, XVIII and XIX and then reheat rapidez.2 When studying the Holocene (last 11.600 years), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found no evidence that there were global annual average temperatures warmer than actuales.2 If the projections of a warming of approximately 5 C in this century materialize, then the planet will experience an average global warming much like the one suffered at the end of wisconsiense glaciation (last glacial period), according to the IPCC there is no evidence that any future global exchange rate has been matched in the last 50 million years for a comparable temperature rise. Global warming associated with climate change can have anthropogenic cause or not. The main effect that causes global warming is the greenhouse effect, a phenomenon referred to absorption by certain atmospheric gases, mainly H 2 O, followed by CO2 and O3energy part of the soil emitted as a result of being heated by radiation solar.3 The natural greenhouse effect that stabilizes the Earth's climate is not a matter to be included in the global warming debate. Without this natural greenhouse temperatures would drop by approximately 30 C, with such change, the oceans would freeze and life as we know it would be impossible. To this effect occurs, it takes these greenhouse gases, but in suitable proportions. What worries climate scientists is that a rise in this ratio result in an increase in temperature due to heat trapped in the lower atmosphere.