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.”
but OBAMA has really changed the way America was during BUSH ......hopeless to hope....& hope he leads America for 10 years best wishes OBAMA.....may be GOD wanted peace on earth...and Americans a change for their face for the atrocities and injustices they committed in IRAQ...Afghanistan and the rest of the world....during Bush
by the way where are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq............. Mr America.........
Same question we will be asking AlGOre and UNIPCC where and how is GHG and CO2 effecting warming...... but then it will be too late.......
In Iraq weapons of mass destruction were not there STILL Sadaam was killed, Baat party was destroyed and ................................... America had control over the OIL FIELDS
but
Global warming is not going to spare ANYONE including the so called developed world Coasts of America and Europe have started experiencing the effects........most of them will be severely facing the effects of FLOODS, cyclones and submergence in near future
Shadow of global warming is looming large on the world but if we move in the INCONVENIENT DIRECTION then we will be the real sufferers........and our generations will be worst hit and still they would be direction less sufferers..
time to rethink global warming.......
find ways to enjoy warming.....