Wednesday, October 14, 2009


‘Global warming is natural, enjoy it’ 
Saurabh Malik
Tribune News Service

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090125/cth1.htm
Chandigarh, January 24, 2009
The hot news on global warming is that “it’s natural” Man has nothing to do with it.
Rather, global warming and cooling processes are like day and night, though of longer durations.
No wonder, award-winning Indian Geologist Dr Ritesh Arya suggests, “Enjoy it”.
A specialist in hydrogeology and groundwater resources in the Himalayas, Dr Arya says, “Man is too small to cause any impact on global warming.”
Author of research papers and invited by the Royal Geographical Society in 2005 to discuss climate change, Dr Arya insists, “Holding man and his activities responsible for pollution is acceptable. Blaming him for global warming is far from truth.”
His vision is not without basis. “Experiments carried while drilling wells in the Indus basin clearly show major glaciers melted much before the advent of industrialisation,” he says. “The rate at which the glaciers receded, though unknown in those times, was much faster than now being projected and related to the activities of man.”
Dr Arya’s views have found a platform in Turkey. He is scheduled to give vent to his findings through a scientific paper. It has been accepted for presentation during a worldwide conference on global warming in Istanbul, Turkey. It is slated to be held from July 5 to July 9.
Dr Arya says his new paper emphasises on the need to reexamine the global warming definition. The one in currency holds man and his activities responsible for increased global warming in recent years.
Dr Arya believes the time has come to put things straight, before it is too late. “Holding mankind responsible for directly or indirectly contributing to increase in greenhouse gases, leading to enhanced temperatures or faster melting rates of glaciers, will only make things worse.
The so-called greenhouse gases, he says, are essential for survival. Dr Arya is, otherwise also, convinced that global cooling will only lead to extinction. “Imagine living in Antarctica or Greenland for the rest of your life without water, without cyclones, without floods,” Dr Arya says.
He says his paper “is based on the data gathered for over a decade from the bore-well samples drilled in the Indus basin in Ladakh and the Indian-Himalayan region.
Bore-well samples analysed from the wells drilled clearly show that global warming and cooling processes are like day and night though of longer durations. They are an essential part of the natural cycle.”
So what are the suggestions and safeguards? “With little precaution while selecting the site in geologically stable habitats for habitation near the coasts or glacio-fluvial valleys, the impacts of global warming like cyclones, flash flooding and land submergence can be minimised,” he asserts, adding, “As such, it’s high time we learn to enjoy global warming.”

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