GLOBAL WARMING AND ITS REGIONAL AND LOCALS MANIFESTATIONS: SOME INDEXES OF BRAZIL'S SOUTHERN REGIONS

Abstract

The climatic changes observed in the Modernity attract the attention ofeveryone. They delineate the climatic-meteorological-environmental speechand they are imposed definitively into the international geopolitical dimensionof the present and of the future. An international consensus about that phenomenon,marked as the same time by some dissonant voices, indicates theintensification of the planetary climatic heating in the century XXI appears forthe formation of complicated sceneries for the ecosystems, the environment and the men's life. In the present text natural characteristics of thephenomenon are evidenced, as well as of the current interferences of thehuman activities on that intensification. Some reflexes of the global climaticchanges in the regional scale are evidenced in the present text, with principalregards for the South area of Brazil, in which was identified thermalalterations (heating of more of 0,7º C with changes, above all, in theminimum temperatures) and elevation of the totals annual of rains (withtendency to annual concentration) in the last decades.

Keywords

• Clima
• Mudanças Climáticas
• Aquecimento
• Brasil
• Região Sul.