Heat-struck!
A sweltering heat wave – a direct ramific
ation of global warming – is as much of a present day threat as it is a future hazard. After the super-scorching European heat wave of 2003 (that killed over 50,000 people there), and the ensuing heat wave in parts of Australia & the US, we thought perhaps it would be some relief in the years to come. But with death tolls still rising to record highs in all parts of the world, (notably so in the previously cold regions), water bodies drying up at an unparalleled rate, parched expanses expanding further – all that is to be blamed is the constant rise in earth’s temperatures.
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A sweltering heat wave – a direct ramific
ation of global warming – is as much of a present day threat as it is a future hazard. After the super-scorching European heat wave of 2003 (that killed over 50,000 people there), and the ensuing heat wave in parts of Australia & the US, we thought perhaps it would be some relief in the years to come. But with death tolls still rising to record highs in all parts of the world, (notably so in the previously cold regions), water bodies drying up at an unparalleled rate, parched expanses expanding further – all that is to be blamed is the constant rise in earth’s temperatures.For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative
fire has a positive ecological role to play as well, as it helps maintain health and diversity of forests. However, rising temperature due to global warming dry up more than just the land. When dry trees and plants rub against each other due to dry winds, they display a process which helped mankind reach this far, ‘starting a fire’ but in this case it translates into a perilous pyre. The high amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted in the atmosphere makes it a vicious cycle, as forest fires become both an outcome and a cause of global warming. As global temperature rises due to deforestation and industrial excesses, like its effect on other destructive natural phenomena, the frequency, intensity and the domain of destruction is amplify ed for forest fires as well. The Canadian Forest Service (CFS) has developed many advanced systems and tools which would be able to monitor and describe forest fire activities. CFS has had a research team since mid-1920s and Canada is now world’s best in forest fire research and management in a way which would help sustain a healthy forest but spectre of global warming will take some exorcising.
Institute (TERI) states that companies in the power business can tremendously benefit given that power transmission in India comes with a large percentage of transmission & distribution losses, which, if reduced, can automatically qualify for credits. Similarly, fertiliser companies too are suffering notional losses to the tune of 20 to 30 million euros. Firms like Tata Chemicals, Chambal Fertilisers et al have failed to take carbon advantage. But then, which countries can Indian firms sell these credits to? “India is not amongst the Annexure 1 nations (as per Kyoto Protocol), which means that India is eligible to sell credits to those nations that are in Annexure 1,” remarked TERI’s Dr. P. P. Bhojvaid to B&E. To the chagrin of the US, India, as also China, South Korea and some others, are currently exempted from adherence to Kyoto Protocol’s emission limits! And the ‘fashionable’ philosophy visibly running around is, “If you have it, why not fl aunt it?” Of course!