Our leaders world over have been talking too much on climate change and impending threat to our eco-systems and life on earth but nothing progressive is happening when it comes to real solutions to avert the danger that is looming large.
Treacherous storms, desertification, spread of pest and disease, melting glaciers, rising sea level and ocean acidification are all different manifestations of Global warming and climate change.
The latest floods that have left a trail of devastation in India, disastrous flash floods in September in Turkey and some parts of Greece, and drought like conditions across the world clearly indicate that Global warming is an unavoidable and rearing its ugly head. These events send an alarming signal to us that there is something extra ordinary about the whether we are experiencing.
Lately, we are observing irregular monsoon patterns and unprecedented ferocity in them with which they have crumbled our ultra-modern infrastructure, roads, rail links, bridges; and turned flat lands in to river beds. These are perilous signs of destruction and havoc that we may face more often in the future.
Is it a result of our past actions or man’s tinkering with nature, production of pollution emitting machines or unending spree of hazardous industrialization? While studies have evidently found that human activities have altered air temperatures, sea levels and ocean temperatures, we are still bickering over who takes the imitative - third world countries who have are at the receiving end of nature’s fury or the industrialized nations who are the gluttonous guzzlers of energy and unmindful emitters greenhouse gases.
A report published by IPCC scientists clearly mentions that most of the global warming that has taken place after mid -20th century is man-made. Research on global warming reveals that average global temperature has risen by almost 3 degrees in this century.
As the term for Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012 world governments must come up with an all inclusive agreement in Copenhagen to contain the threat and leave a better future for the inhabitants of the earth.
