The presence of humans has posed significant challenges to the Earth’s environment. While the problem of pollution of water bodies by the way of industrial effluents and increasing interference in the habitat of water bodies due to encroachment and expanding populations looking for new habitats has reached gigantic proportions, the air pollution has increased the earth’s temperature significantly in the last four decades. This has put immense pressure on the Himalayas whose glaciers feed most of the rivers in India, China, Nepal and Bhutan. According to a recent survey, these glaciers have been losing more than a vertical foot and half of ice each year since 2000. The comprehensive international study that has examined 40 years of satellite data shows that the melting process in Himalayan glaciers has sped up dramatically since the start of the 21st century. It is the most credible and reliable survey which comprehensively proves that the process of climate change is real and it is eating the Himalayan glaciers. While we may not face the consequences immediately, this process, if not stopped immediately, will lead to a major water crisis and our future generations will not be very happy with what we are doing to our planet. According to the study that appears this week in ‘Science Advances’, the glaciers may have lost as much as a quarter of their ice of some 600 billion tonnes of ice over the last four decades. The process of melting has been consistent in time and space over these last forty years and the scientists have blamed it on the rising temperatures. It is no secret that temperatures vary from one area to another. However, from 2000 to 2016, scientists have calculated that the temperature has risen by one extra degree Centigrade (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) which is much higher than those from 1975 to 2000. It doesn’t require Einstein’s brain to understand that this simmering volcano has been activated by reckless human behaviour. Due to unplanned urbanisation, booming transport on roads and mega expansion of industries, we often end up creating a situation which not only endangers the environment around us like forests and water bodies but it threatens the human existence in itself. A big boost to dealing with the problem of climate change took place recently when the US rejoined the Paris climate agreement. We should also take steps at our own levels to create an environment where our future generations don’t curse us for our misdeeds.
The presence of humans has posed significant challenges to the Earth’s environment. While the problem of pollution of water bodies by the way of industrial effluents and increasing interference in the habitat of water bodies due to encroachment and expanding populations looking for new habitats has reached gigantic proportions, the air pollution has increased the earth’s temperature significantly in the last four decades. This has put immense pressure on the Himalayas whose glaciers feed most of the rivers in India, China, Nepal and Bhutan. According to a recent survey, these glaciers have been losing more than a vertical foot and half of ice each year since 2000. The comprehensive international study that has examined 40 years of satellite data shows that the melting process in Himalayan glaciers has sped up dramatically since the start of the 21st century. It is the most credible and reliable survey which comprehensively proves that the process of climate change is real and it is eating the Himalayan glaciers. While we may not face the consequences immediately, this process, if not stopped immediately, will lead to a major water crisis and our future generations will not be very happy with what we are doing to our planet. According to the study that appears this week in ‘Science Advances’, the glaciers may have lost as much as a quarter of their ice of some 600 billion tonnes of ice over the last four decades. The process of melting has been consistent in time and space over these last forty years and the scientists have blamed it on the rising temperatures. It is no secret that temperatures vary from one area to another. However, from 2000 to 2016, scientists have calculated that the temperature has risen by one extra degree Centigrade (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) which is much higher than those from 1975 to 2000. It doesn’t require Einstein’s brain to understand that this simmering volcano has been activated by reckless human behaviour. Due to unplanned urbanisation, booming transport on roads and mega expansion of industries, we often end up creating a situation which not only endangers the environment around us like forests and water bodies but it threatens the human existence in itself. A big boost to dealing with the problem of climate change took place recently when the US rejoined the Paris climate agreement. We should also take steps at our own levels to create an environment where our future generations don’t curse us for our misdeeds.
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