CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

as a world health organization, WHO see so much climate change impacts on human health. For that is why the WHO initiative to raise the theme that in order to commemorate the 60th HKS in 2008.

WHO Representative to Indonesia, Mr. Sharad Adhikary explains why it is so important a concern for these issues are highly threatened due to the impact of health and human survival on this earth.

Basically, the Earth is always experiencing climate change from time to time. Only in the past such changes naturally take place while the current climate change is caused by human activity that is more rapid and drastic.

THEN WHAT CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE?
In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / IPCC) and Al Gore awarded Nobel Peace Prize. The award was obtained for their efforts to develop and disseminate knowledge about climate change caused by human activities as well as about the fundamental efforts to follow up these changes are not natural.

The results confirm that the IPCC assessment of global climate change occurs because the earth's atmosphere full of greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide and methane, generated by humans. Carbon dioxide caused by fossil fuel combustion processes in order to produce energy and also due to forest fires. While methane gas caused by waste disposal activities.

GHG has the ability to capture infrared rays of sunlight reflected by the earth. Therefore, the greater the amount of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, the earth would be getting hot. Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 385 parts per million in 2006, a remarkable improvement when compared with data on climate change during the last 650,000 years, said Mr. Sharad.

Over the last 13 years, twelve years of which was recorded as the warmest years. With the continued accumulation of greenhouse gases such as today, in the next two to three decades will exceed the increase in global warming calculations have been wherewith. IPCC estimates that by 2050 global temperatures will rise 2-3 degrees Celsius.

Increasing the temperature will have an impact on:
- Widespread melting Arctic ice cap
- Increasing the temperature of sea water, resulting in rising sea
- The dry season will be more dry and wet season will be more
- Increased rainfall and flooding conditions

Overall it will affect human health both in terms of the increasing growth of disease-carrying animals such as mosquitoes, are also threats to the availability of clean water, food crisis, and cleanliness of the environment. Finally, the overall effect is to threaten human life, said Mr. Sharad.

For that very important to really understand climate change. Mr, Sharad asserted that required the readiness of all countries in the deal, to be able to adapt, and accept that going to happen the worse the effect, which is not anticipated.