THE GLOBAL WARMING IN ROMANIA
Table of contents ■ What is the Global Warming ? ■ Causes of the Global Warming in Romania ■ Effects of the Global Warming ■ Solutions
What is the Global Warming ?
â– Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.
Causes of the Global Warming in Romania
â– LOCATED IN EASTERN Europe, Romania has a land area of 238,392 sq. km., with a population of 21,438,000 , and a population density of 93 people per sq. km. Some 41 percent of the land of Romania is arable, with a further 21 percent used for meadows and pasture, and 28 percent is forested.
â– For the generation of electricity in the country, 53 percent comes from fossil fuels, with 37 percent from hydropower, and 10 percent from nuclear power, with a small amount of electricity exported, and an even smaller part imported.
Fossil fules
Hydropower
Nuclear Power
Effects of the Global Warming
â– Because of its position on the southeastern portion of the European continent, Romania has a climate which ranges from temperate to continental. Climatic conditions are somewhat modified by the country's varied topography.
Changes in Air ■Data over the period 1961-2007 in 94 meteo stations highlight significant changes in average seasonal temperature: about 2°C increase of average temperature during summer, winter and spring, and a slight trend of decrease of the average temperature in autumn .
The Romanian Plain For the extra-Carpathians areas of Romania (eastern, southern and south-eastern regions) it was studied whether air temperatures have become more extreme during 1961–2010.
Biodiversity in Romania
Changes in Water â– Data over the period 1961-2007 in 94 meteo stations show a trend of decrease of the average amount of precipitation especially in summer and winter, and a trend of increase of the amount of precipitation in autumn.
■Romania is known as one of the most flood-prone countries in Europe. Floods killed 1,000 people in 1926; 215 people in 1970; 60 people in 1975; 108 people in 1991; and 33 people in 1995. Flood in Brăila In 2006, the extreme floods between April and August were among the most devastating natural disasters from recent Romanian climate history (the most devastating during the observation period 1840-2006.
â– The direct and indirect costs of sea level rise for Europe have been modelled for a range of sea level rise scenarios for the 2020s and 2080s . The results show: 1. First, sea-level rise has negative economic effects but these effects are not particularly dramatic. 2. Second, the impact of sea-level rise is not confined to the coastal zone and sealevel rise indeed affects landlocked countries as well. 3. Third, adaptation is crucial to keep the negative impacts of sea-level rise at an acceptable level.
Flood in Dobrogea
Soil and agriculture
Solutions
â– The Romanian government of Ion Iliescu took part in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992.
■ ,, One way to fight aridity is planting
trees in the affected areas. ‘’
â– The minister said another solution is to resume irrigation on large areas of farmland.
â– Any action to reduce or eliminate the release of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere helps slow the rate of warming and, likely, the pace and severity of change at any given hot spot.
‘’ IN DISTANCES OF SMOKE THE TOWN AFIRE, BLAZING BENEATH THE PLANES, A FRIGID PYRE. WE TWO, FOREST, WHAT DID WE DO? WHY DID THEY BURN YOU, FOREST, IN A TOGA OF ASH AND THE MOON NO LONGER PASSES OVER YOU? ‘’ Nichita Stãnescu, ‘’Burned Forest’’
Project made by Bulai Ioana and Tofan Andreea