The problem of global climate change The earth's climate is changing not only from natural causes, but mainly to anthropogenic causes. This is the conclusion of the 2007 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change), from which we learn how the global increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide is mainly due to the use of fossil fuels and land use changes , whereas increases in methane and nitrous oxide are derived, in particular, agriculture and animal husbandry. The global average surface temperature has increased last century (1906-2005) of 0.74 ° C. Since 1950, every ten years, the temperature had an average increase of 0.13 ° C, assuming a linear trend. Eleven of the twelve years rank among the warmest since 1850, that is, since there are reliable instrumental measurements of the temperature of the earth. Europe has had in the last century, a temperature rise of 0.94 ° C, thus higher than global. The Italian data are consistent with those of Europe: it is estimated about one degree of temperature rise for ever in our country for the last hundred years. So the trend in 100 years of the average atmospheric temperature in Italy is more higher trend su 100 anni della temperatura atmosferica media globale.
Le previsioni relative alle future emissioni di gas serra e le proiezioni dei modelli climatici fanno presumere, per la fine di questo secolo, un riscaldamento compreso tra 1,8 e 4°C rispetto al periodo 1980-1999. È, dunque, probabile un ulteriore aumento della temperatura e dei fenomeni legati ai cambiamenti climatici, quali la variazione del regime delle precipitazioni con un aumento delle intensità di pioggia; l'aumento di fenomeni quali piene in autunno o inverno, la siccità in primavera ed estate, le ondate di calore, gli incendi. Altri cambiamenti riguardano le temperature superficiali dei nostri mari sia costieri sia profondi, che potrebbero lead to an alteration of the system of currents and balances that regulate the production of biological resources and the water cycle. In particular it is expected that these changes will have a major impact on coastal marine ecosystems and the goods and services related to them. The changes in climate and temperature have important impacts on the socio-economic and ecological Italy. It is therefore necessary to be undertaken series of mitigation policies, the effect of which, however, will be felt only in the long term. For this reason it is also necessary to undertake in parallel a serious policy to adapt to global climate change. It must also include a restoration of the functioning of ecosystems natural, both aquatic and terrestrial. In particular, systems such as forests and grasslands are capable of removing large quantities of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to contribute actively and effectively to the mitigation of global climate change, the moderation of extreme weather events. It is also extremely important to limit the deforestation at the global level: in Italy the only summer fires of 2007 destroyed 113,000 acres, causing an emission of 4.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, that correspond to those issues in a year Milan.