Snowy Owl
Retired in 2010, In Memoriam
Dengue: Fallout of climate change
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20061028/2810302.htm
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20061028/2810302.htm
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The massive resurgence of dengue fever in various parts of India is a vicious fallout of the increased temperature brought about by the unchecked global warming which for many years has been at the centre of an intense international debate and discussion. For earlier research studies have correlated the increased malarial cases to the proliferating growth of the mosquito population due to global warming.
[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Similarly, decreased crop yield, torrential rains, recurring droughts, inundation of coastal areas, water shortage and typhoons as well many other regularly occurring natural catastrophes are being blamed on the phenomena of global warming.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]According to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, climate change due to global warming is the world's greatest environmental challenge. Researcher Ruddiman WF has sounded a warning as he makes a strong plea for an immediate action plan to minimize the incidence of global warming.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] According to him, "the single most effective things that can be done about global warming is to invest in technologies that will reduce carbon emissions, especially those that will come from the 200 years supply of coal".[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Climatologists point out that during the last one century, global average temperature has gone up by around one degree Celsius and this has made a critical difference to the climate pattern and health of the eco system. Meanwhile, there are also fears that global warming could contribute to decreasing water levels in the Indian rivers.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Studies carried out at the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology has led the researchers to the conclusion that the temperature could increase by about five degree Celsius in many parts of India by the end of this century.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]According to Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Head of the New Delhi-based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, there is now newer and stronger evidence to suggest that gases released while burning fossil fuels in power plants, cars and factories are warming the planet.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Though there are lot of uncertainties in scientific models about the global temperature increase due to global warming, now there is a growing consensus that the temperature rise due to global warming is real and humans play an important role in causing global warming.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In this context, Rupa Kumar Kolli, a scientist at the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), "there are uncertainties in all climate change models but the temperature increase is one aspect where uncertainties are least".
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Further, researchers believe that the increase in the number of violent natural events over the last three decades could have a link to global warming.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Analysis of the data on global weather dynamics has led to the conclusion that world's poorest countries could face a dramatic rise in death from diseases and malnutrition as a direct result of climate change driven wealthier and more polluting countries. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The researcher reached this conclusion after constructing a map showing how climate change affect different regions of the world by making infectious diseases more rampant and widespread.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Forecasts of climate change also predict ore erratic weather patterns for many countries, wreaking havoc with their subsistence farming.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]As it is, it has been estimated that today's level of carbon dioxide build up in the atmosphere at 370 ppm (part per million) are the highest in the 20-million ears. Increased use of fossil fuels in sectors such as industry and transport is a major contributor to the process of global warming. "We need to stabilize emissions over the next 50 years using existing technology", says Jorge LS Armiento of Princetown University in the USA. In this context, a section of researchers strongly recommend the increased use of nuclear power to obviate the incidence of green house gases build up from the burning of fossil fuels.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Obviously, human activities are at the root of global warming. "It is time to realize that this (global warming) is happening on our planet, not somewhere else" says Armiento. And according to the London-based Energy Saving Trust (EST) everyone has a part to play in combating global warming. "It is important that people don't feel powerless in the face of planet wide problem. The message is about choice. We are not asking everyone to change his lifestyle", says a spokesman of EST.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]As per the current EST estimates, half of carbon dioxide emitted in Britain comes from households and a combination of individual action could make a big difference. The mandate of EST is to spread the message of boosting energy efficiency to cut down the production of gases like carbon dioxide emitted by burning of fossil fuels.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Meanwhile, a section of researchers believe that the popularization of nuclear power could contribute to the minimization of global warming. "The only technology ready to fill the gap and stop carbon dioxide emission is nuclear power" says Stewart Brand of Whole Earth catalogue.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A path-breaking research study by Germany's Max Planck Institute of Meteorology shows that climate change will be more frequent than ever in the next one hundred years because of the ongoing global warming. In Europe, summers will be drier and warm and in turn change will affect farming pattern.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Researchers are also worried that ice sheets in both arctic and Antarctica are melting, thus indicating an additional proof of global warming. Due to their longevity and quick response to temperature changes, ice sheets are considered "a sentinel of climate change".[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Not surprisingly, researchers warn that if the melting rate continues at the prevailing rate, summer time in Arctic could be completely ice free before the end of this century. "It is increasingly difficult to argue against the notion that at lest part of what we are seeing in the Arctic in terms of sea ice, in scientist at the US-based National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC).[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Radhakrishna Rao, INFA[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Similarly, decreased crop yield, torrential rains, recurring droughts, inundation of coastal areas, water shortage and typhoons as well many other regularly occurring natural catastrophes are being blamed on the phenomena of global warming.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]According to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, climate change due to global warming is the world's greatest environmental challenge. Researcher Ruddiman WF has sounded a warning as he makes a strong plea for an immediate action plan to minimize the incidence of global warming.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] According to him, "the single most effective things that can be done about global warming is to invest in technologies that will reduce carbon emissions, especially those that will come from the 200 years supply of coal".[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Climatologists point out that during the last one century, global average temperature has gone up by around one degree Celsius and this has made a critical difference to the climate pattern and health of the eco system. Meanwhile, there are also fears that global warming could contribute to decreasing water levels in the Indian rivers.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Studies carried out at the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology has led the researchers to the conclusion that the temperature could increase by about five degree Celsius in many parts of India by the end of this century.
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]According to Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Head of the New Delhi-based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, there is now newer and stronger evidence to suggest that gases released while burning fossil fuels in power plants, cars and factories are warming the planet.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Though there are lot of uncertainties in scientific models about the global temperature increase due to global warming, now there is a growing consensus that the temperature rise due to global warming is real and humans play an important role in causing global warming.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In this context, Rupa Kumar Kolli, a scientist at the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), "there are uncertainties in all climate change models but the temperature increase is one aspect where uncertainties are least".
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Further, researchers believe that the increase in the number of violent natural events over the last three decades could have a link to global warming.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Analysis of the data on global weather dynamics has led to the conclusion that world's poorest countries could face a dramatic rise in death from diseases and malnutrition as a direct result of climate change driven wealthier and more polluting countries. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The researcher reached this conclusion after constructing a map showing how climate change affect different regions of the world by making infectious diseases more rampant and widespread.
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Forecasts of climate change also predict ore erratic weather patterns for many countries, wreaking havoc with their subsistence farming.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]As it is, it has been estimated that today's level of carbon dioxide build up in the atmosphere at 370 ppm (part per million) are the highest in the 20-million ears. Increased use of fossil fuels in sectors such as industry and transport is a major contributor to the process of global warming. "We need to stabilize emissions over the next 50 years using existing technology", says Jorge LS Armiento of Princetown University in the USA. In this context, a section of researchers strongly recommend the increased use of nuclear power to obviate the incidence of green house gases build up from the burning of fossil fuels.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Obviously, human activities are at the root of global warming. "It is time to realize that this (global warming) is happening on our planet, not somewhere else" says Armiento. And according to the London-based Energy Saving Trust (EST) everyone has a part to play in combating global warming. "It is important that people don't feel powerless in the face of planet wide problem. The message is about choice. We are not asking everyone to change his lifestyle", says a spokesman of EST.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]As per the current EST estimates, half of carbon dioxide emitted in Britain comes from households and a combination of individual action could make a big difference. The mandate of EST is to spread the message of boosting energy efficiency to cut down the production of gases like carbon dioxide emitted by burning of fossil fuels.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Meanwhile, a section of researchers believe that the popularization of nuclear power could contribute to the minimization of global warming. "The only technology ready to fill the gap and stop carbon dioxide emission is nuclear power" says Stewart Brand of Whole Earth catalogue.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A path-breaking research study by Germany's Max Planck Institute of Meteorology shows that climate change will be more frequent than ever in the next one hundred years because of the ongoing global warming. In Europe, summers will be drier and warm and in turn change will affect farming pattern.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Researchers are also worried that ice sheets in both arctic and Antarctica are melting, thus indicating an additional proof of global warming. Due to their longevity and quick response to temperature changes, ice sheets are considered "a sentinel of climate change".[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Not surprisingly, researchers warn that if the melting rate continues at the prevailing rate, summer time in Arctic could be completely ice free before the end of this century. "It is increasingly difficult to argue against the notion that at lest part of what we are seeing in the Arctic in terms of sea ice, in scientist at the US-based National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC).[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Radhakrishna Rao, INFA[/FONT]