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= I know you will soon be taking part in the Copenhaguen Summit on Climate Change. My name's Víctor Gómez Cerdera and I am a 1º Bachillerato student at IES El Palo school in Màlaga. My school is currently involved in a Comenius project whose main topic has to do, among other things, with the impact of CO2 in the environment and consequently the climate change and the nasty consequences that seem to be coming upon the world. I would like to show my concern for the state of our planet, at large, as well as our country,in particular. The current state of affairs is pretty bad: The most southerly glaciers in Europe are losing the battle against warming and look set to be among the first to disappear from the continent over the coming decades. Their loss will have a severe impact on summer water supplies in the foothills and southern plains south of the Pyrenees. "This century could see (perhaps within a few decades) the total, or almost total, disappearance of the last reserves of ice in the Spanish Pyrenees and, as a result, a major change in the current nature of upper reaches of the mountains," the authors of the report on Spain's glaciers said. Scientists have ruled out the idea that the progressive deterioration of glaciers around the globe are part of normal, long-term fluctuations in their size. Europe's glaciers are thought to have lost a quarter of their mass in the last 8 years. According to an article published today in Diario Información, the European Environment Agency has published a report on the consquences of climate change in Spain. The report warns that the province of Alicante will lose 20% its water resources during the next 75 years as average temperatures are expected to rise by as much as 4º. This means that if population in Southern Spain continues to rise, the whole area will have a serious drinking-water problem in a few decades time. Last week was Alicante's driest ever week in October. I would like to make some suggestions too that I am sure would be helpful if we don't want the climate change to get to the point of no return: We must stop of waste energy and water.You could improve public transport and make more buses and cycles path.You can make more campaigns to encourage people about this problem like the traffic problems.You can improve renewable energies and less no renewable energies. Please, do your best to help our planet, our home before it's too late Signed Víctor Gómez[[home| [|Find more videos like this on //Going Green with Sustainable Energy//] ]]=