Mxico in front of the Global Warming

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México in front of the Global Warming
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• Mexico is the 14 th place in total greenhouse
  gases emissions. Considering the size of our
  population and our territory, the emissions per
  capita are relativelly low, compared to the ones
  from industrialized countries.

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• Acording to the Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y
  Recursos Naturales (Semarnat)
• The location of México, the weather, the
  orographical and hydrographic conditions and the
  social and economical problems, among other
  factors, contribute to the exposure of our
  country to hydrometeorological problems that can
  cause disasters. These effects will be seen
  exacerbated by the weather change.

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And what happens in Puebla?

• Puebla is one of the states of México that has
  suffered the effects of the global weather change
  the most. During the last century, it had a
  rainful decrease in 200 liters per square meter
  and a tendency of 17.5 degrees anual media
  temperature, characteristic of a semiarid
  weather, said the Centro Universitario de
  Prevención de Desastres Regionales, (Cupreder) of
  the BUAP.
• It also stated that in winter, the average
  temperatures of the city have been over the
  normal ones, causing warm winters.

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Forest Loss

• The fast forest loss in La Malinche, a hill in
  Puebla, in the last 25 years has provoked the
  liberation to the atmosphere of 20 tons of CO2,
  gas that contributes to the weather change.
• Between 1980 y 2002, the deforested area of all
  the mountain surface that supplies to Puebla city
  of air, water and other environmental resources,
  were growing to 5, 355 square kilómeters.For
  that reason, its stimated also a reduction of
  rain precipitations in some areas of the Valley
  of Puebla up to 100 milimeters.

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Deforestation

• On july 2007 a hill fell down in the Sierra Negra
  of Puebla caused by the deforestation of the
  hills. This accident burried a bus with 32
  persons on board, who finally died.

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Forest fires

• During this year in Puebla
• there have been registered
• around 60 forest fires that
• have affected an average
• of 60,000 square meters,
• said the Secretaría del
• Medio Ambiente y Recursos
• Naturales and pointed out
• that this 2008 its considered
• critic, because of the estimate
• that the forest areas will be
• reduced 50 due to occasional rain.

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Intense rains friday august 17th 2007

• The months of september and october were the most
  rainful and had a big incidence of hurricanes in
  the country in this lapse were predicted rian
  precipitations that were 19 superior to the
  historic media. It was warned by the Comisión
  Nacional del Agua. The areas where there were a
  bigger number of storms, they said, are located
  in the north states of the country, like
  Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila in the slope of
  the Golfo de Mexico, as the Valley of Mexico
  which includes the DF, Morelos, Edo. de México
  and Puebla. He pointed out that form august to
  october
• there were some 240 intense storms
• over the 20 milímeters in 24 hours
• , which represented a risk for the sewage
• system.

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Hurricane Stan October 11th 2005

• Seven states were affected by the Stan
  hurricane, where were registered emergencies,
  deaths and thousands of victims lost their homes
  after the disaster. Several comunities
  disappeared due to the floods and more than
  250,000 persons were sent to shelters. Also there
  were reported damages in Puebla, Hidalgo y
  Guerrero and there were thousands of people
  affected.

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Hurricane Stan October 11th 2005
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Hurricane Dean Wednesday, august 22th, 2007

• 113 municipalities of the state were warned about
  the possibility of intense rains on the North,
  Northeast and Sierra Negra, as the area of the
  Valley of Puebla. This were a consequence of
  Hurricane Dean, that since dawn caused the first
  rains over different areas of the state,
  including the capital, the afternoon of that
  Tuesday, was marked by an exceptional storm that
  left five people injured and some fallen trees.

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Hurricane Dean Wednesday, august 22nd, 2007
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Invasion from the sea

• According to the document Vulnerabilidad del
  litoral a los efectos por ascenso del nivel del
  mar en las costas Bajas del Golfo de México, the
  46.2 of the mexican gulf coast is susceptible
  to the increase of the level of the sea.. The
  majority of this part is found from the center
  towards the south of the coast. Some of the zones
  more vulnerable are the coast lakes and the
  marsh. Other important areas are the fields and
  agricultural lands, which also are polluted with
  the salt intrusion and are changing for cost
  environments. This units are also distributed in
  the central portion and south of the Mexican Gulf
  Coast.

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Invasion from the sea
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Tornadoes caused by the Gulf of Mexico
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Tornadoes

• The change of the environment is provoking also
  the frequent appearance of tornadoes in the
  Southeast of the United States, caused by the
  increase of the elevation of the temperature of
  the Mexican Gulf waters.

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Droughts

• A phenomenon called desertification is affecting
  The mexican grounds seriously. There are more
  than 57,660,000 square miles damaged and more
  than 47 of our national territory suffers some
  degree of deforestation.The Instituto Nacional
  de Ecología, said in México between the 50 and
  70 of Mexican territory, approximately, has some
  type of drought.The desertification is taking
  place mainly in the municipalities of the north
  and center of the country. The most affected
  states are Durango, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Hidalgo,
  Tlaxcala, Puebla and Zacatecas.

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Droughts
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Lack of water

• The river basin Lerma-Chapala-Santiago has
  suffered an approximated decrease of 61 of its
  water drainage and 99.7 of the water reservoir.
  However, the usable water volume increased in
  142. This variations show the large exploitation
  that has been practiced in the water reservoir of
  the river baisin of the Lerma to support the
  population centers established on it, and on the
  city of México.

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The river basin Lerma-Chapala-Santiago
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Agriculture Corn

• The report Comportamiento en la superficie
  potencialmente apta para el cultivo de maíz de
  temporal ante un cambio climático global , talks
  about the impact over the main crop of the
  country and it includes that in the present
  circumstance the 10.69 of all the country
  surface can be considered as apt for corn
  cultivation. Meanwhile, the circumstances of the
  change showed that just the 4.34 of the
  territory will be apt. Before a similar scene, a
  diminution of more than 50 of the apt land for
  corn cultivation, it would be necessary to add
  the increase of the population for the next
  century, for drawing a more complete picture, it
• means, less supply and more demand
• for food.

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And what do the rich think about that?

• The transnational oil companies, the car
  manufacturers, the oil chemistry companies and
  other industries conformed around oil, coal and
  gas are fighting to avoid any international
  agreement that jeopardize their interests, if
  they stablish obligatory reductions in the
  emissions of (CO2).

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The government

• The Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos
  Naturales recognized in a newspaper called El
  Universal that they are designing a comunication
  strategy where the Mexican Government will
  encourage the Mexican citizens to do concrete
  things that contribute to the disminution of the
  weather change.

• For example , to disconnect home appliances when
  they arent being used or change the normal light
  bulbs to light bulbs that save energy.

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All the problems presented here were and are a
Mexican responsability and some of us are working
to find out effective solutions