Global Warming – A Global Concern still an individual

Dear Readers,

Global issues are actually individual ones such as 'Global Warming'. There is a bit difference in the concept of global warming and climate change in the media. Global Warming is an overall warming of the planet, based on average temperature over the entire surface. Whereas Climate Changes are the changes in regional climate characteristics, including temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, and severe weather events. Global warming is caused by green house gases, which trap in the sun’s infrared rays in the earth’s atmosphere, which in turn heat up the earth’s atmosphere. These green house effect warming is called as global warming. The effects of green house effect are visible more prominently in the recent years, with number of natural calamities on the rise in the whole world. Threats of global warming along with suggested individual efforts such as buying a fuel efficient car, reducing garbage, switching to a tankless water heater, carpooling, planting a tree, buying organic food, insulating water heater, change the AC filter, taking shorter showers and many more, could shape our attitude of daily living style. Global warming is predicted to lead a variety of negative effects, to reduce this we need to develop steps for the prevention such as organizing self awareness programs, planning exhibitions in different parts of the countries to create awareness on global warming. The paper also concerns India’s strategy against Global Warming. The United States wants developing countries like India and China to agree to control the emissions being produced by their rapidly galloping economies by setting specific targets. India argues that this would hurt its economic growth and wants the industrialized world to curb its pollution as well as fund new technologies in the developing world by underlining that it has one of lowest emissions per capita in the world. Even as both agree on the need for an agreement at Copenhagen, India has made it clear that it cannot accept legally binding limits on carbon emissions. Apart from the plans to slow down the global warming, adaptation schemes must move forward fast. Constructing flood defenses, banning buildings close to sea areas are some of the measures we can adapt. Global warming is a concern of each individual for which we need to become citizens of the planet rather than citizens of each nation.

Thanks for a nice reading.
Raghvendra & Sandeep
(do visit http://www.thirdeye-raghvendra.blogspot.com/)

Protect Ozone Layer

Namastey
Dear Lovers of Humanity,

                Would you like to imagine - a smooth, raised, pearly bump on the sun-exposed skin of the head, neck, and shoulders, sometimes visible small blood vessels within the tumor or a red thickened patch with ulceration & bleeding on the skin, occurred due to overexposure of ultraviolet (UV) radiation especially between 0900 am to 0400 pm when the sun is highest in the sky - a skin cancer on the body of your grandson or the grandson of your grandson, ultimately part of your own genes? If yes, please stop reading this write-up immediately.

Many of you would not like to, especially those accumulating huge wealth for their generations to come over. Yes, I am talking about protecting generation of human beings from the deadly UV rays emanating from the sun and is a major cause of life on earth. Our earth is being protected by blocking the harmful UV rays of the sun by the OZONE layer, just 55- 65 kms above your own height. And every decade 4% of the layer is being depleted, so imagine what would happen just after 100yrs from today i.e, expecting the life period of your newly born son and his son. Your immediate generation will be affected by skin cancer, if you do not take measures to protect this layer now. CFC - Chloro Fluoro Carbon (a chlorine atom) - is used in the ACs, Refrigerators, Cleansing solvents, Fire extinguishers etc, responsible for the depletion. According to research one chlorine atom is enough to destroy over 100,000 ozone molecules. In other words, we need to change our lifestyle, as we are also contributing in developing this hole in the Ozone layer.

16th September is proclaimed as International Ozone Day, which is not enough to increase awareness, activity & educate mass public. Therefore, it becomes our burning responsibility to increase awareness about this environmental damage through - normal conversation in our family or social gathering, satisfying inquisitiveness of small children, associating with an NGO or UN environmental programs, planting trees as much as possible in the residential colonies in consultation with municipal corporations, purchasing cheapest lands in a far surrounding and cultivate a mini forest, organizing lecture schedules in almost all schools & colleges of your town, create a local association in your area to promote & help in this regard by appealing small orgnaizations & individuals with most nominal registration charges & spending the amount honestly in developing a greenhouse effect, appealing factories not to use ozone depleting chemicals directly as well as with the help of media, developing an environment friendly lifestyle by not using such products & finding alternatives and above all devote time & initiation and motivate your referrals also to promote this idea of SAVING EARTH.

Now, the problem is that who shall take initiative & time, and the solution is to start from your own family, then neighbours, the organization with which you are affiliated directly or indirectly, and then off course the residential society in which you and your generation will be living.

Don't get excited with large goals, remember - SMALL DROPS MAKE AN OCEAN.

Thanks for patient reading as well as understanding the seriousness of concern.

Raghvendra
Jodhpur, Rajasthan