Global
Warming Advancing At An Unsustainable Rate
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a forward to a
report published on 30th January 2006 that the danger of
climatic changes was coming faster than was thought so far.
The report, prepared at government directive, presented the
evidences deliberated in a meet organized by Britain’s
Meteorological Office in 2005.
The P.M. wrote that the risks posed due to unsustainable
Global warming caused by increased
emission of
green house gases was greater than imagined. The global warming will
cause the sea levels to rise by 16 feet due to melting and
disintegration of the huge west Antarctic ice sheet- said
Mr. Chris Rapley, the head of the British Antarctic Survey.
This type of incident may be described as the tipping point
that tilts the scales to the detriment of mankind.
The Intergovernmental panel on Climate
change (IPCC)
compares the temperature rise (1 degree F) that occurred in
the last century to the one projected in the current one
and comes to the conclusion that it may vary from 2.5 to
10.4 times depending on adoption of anti-emission measures
to contain proliferation of green house gases.
Mr. Rapley felt that there was ground for real concern and
rejected the last IPCC report that played down the role of
the ice sheet of Antarctica, by dubbing it to remain in
slumber, when in reality, it was an awakened giant.
But the real problem in containing the emission of green
house gases such as carbon-di- oxide was that the economy
might suffer in case there was attempt to contain it. This
was holding the U.S. government and was the reason for its
antipathy to the Kyoto Climate change accord. British
ministers have also acknowledged the dilemma.
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