By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept
Sikkim Breaking News | News From SikkimSikkim Breaking News | News From Sikkim
  • Home
  • Trending
    • Latest News
    • Global News
    • Week in Review
  • Politics
    • Sikkim
    • North-East
    • Darjeeling & North Bengal
    • National
  • SC Investigatives
  • SC Stories
    • Education
    • Social Issues
    • Geo-Politics
  • एस सी नेपाली
  • Health
  • Society
  • Fact-Checks
Reading: “I want you to act as if your house is on fire because it is” : Time to wake up
Share
Notification Show More
Aa
Sikkim Breaking News | News From SikkimSikkim Breaking News | News From Sikkim
Aa
  • Trending
  • World
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fashion
  • Home
    • Home 1
    • Home 2
    • Home 3
    • Home 4
    • Home 5
  • Categories
    • Technology
    • Trending
    • Fashion
    • World
    • Science
    • Health
  • Bookmarks
  • More Foxiz
    • Sitemap
Follow US
Uncategorized

“I want you to act as if your house is on fire because it is” : Time to wake up

Suben Pradhan
Last updated: 2022/01/15 at 6:24 AM
By Suben Pradhan
Share
6 Min Read
SHARE

Climate change is a long-term shift in global or regional climate patterns. Often climate change refers specifically to the rise in global temperatures from the mid-20th century to present. Climate is sometimes mistaken for weather. But climate is different from weather because it is measured over a long period of time, whereas weather can change from day to day, or from year to year. The climate of an area includes seasonal temperature and rainfall averages, and wind patterns.

Climate change is one of the major environmental threats facing the world. Forest type distribution, carbon stocks or emissions and climate change are interlinked processes. Deforestation and land degradation contributes to about 20 per cent of global CO2 emissions and the forest sector provides a large opportunity to mitigate climate change, particularly through the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) mechanism. Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation – in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the “largest temperature departure from average of any season on record. Possessing an excessive carbon footprint is rapidly becoming the modern equivalent of wearing a scarlet letter. Because neither the goals nor acceptable emissions limits are clear, however, morality is often mistaken for science.

A recent article in New Scientist suggested that the biggest problem arising from the epidemic of obesity is the additional carbon burden that fat people—who tend to eat a lot of meat and travel mostly in cars—place on the environment. Greenhouse-gas emissions have risen rapidly in the past two centuries, and levels today are higher than at any time in at least the past six hundred and fifty thousand years.

In 1995, each of the six billion people on earth was responsible, on average, for one ton of carbon emissions. Oceans and forests can absorb about half that amount. Although specific estimates vary, scientists and policy officials increasingly agree that allowing emissions to continue at the current rate would induce dramatic changes in the global climate system.

To avoid the most catastrophic effects of those changes, we will have to hold emissions steady in the next decade, then reduce them by at least sixty to eighty per cent by the middle of the century. (A delay of just ten years in stopping the increase would require double the reductions.) Yet, even if all carbon emissions stopped today, the earth would continue to warm for at least another century.

Facts like these have transformed carbon dioxide into a strange but powerful new currency, difficult to evaluate yet impossible to ignore. Clouds currently cover about two-thirds of the planet at any moment. But computer simulations of clouds have begun to suggest that as the Earth warms, clouds become scarcer. With fewer white surfaces reflecting sunlight back to space, the Earth gets even warmer, leading to more cloud loss. This feedback loop causes warming to spiral out of control.

For decades, rough calculations have suggested that cloud loss could significantly impact climate, but this concern remained speculative until the last few years, when observations and simulations of clouds improved to the point where researchers could amass convincing evidence.

Sikkim Himalayas, a part of the eastern Himalayas, which is influenced by the T-junction of climatic systems largely dominated by the SW monsoon and receive limited winter rain from the Mediterranean westerly, and North-east monsoon, provides a vantage location to understand the complex responses of the climatic changes. The Sikkim Himalayas is also known to be a part of the biodiversity hotspot.

 The major population of the Sikkim Himalayas is rural (75%) and economically dependent on climatically sensitive sectors such as agriculture and tourism for its livelihood. Besides, the area also contains more than 100 glaciers, which are the lifeline to the region.

Therefore, the climatic study of this region is not only important to understand the physical atmospheric system but is also crucial to assess the influence of any climatic change on the biophysical and socio-economic setup of this region. During the recent years, a rise in the temperature has been noted. Frequent landslides, rise in river level, cloudbursts had been observed. Change in weather patterns is normal now. The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity.

In the words of President Obama, “No challenge poses a greater threat to the Future generation than climate change”. We are the first generation to be stung by the Global Warming and the last generation that can do something about it. Let’s bequeath our planet just like we inherited it.

“YOU ARE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE”.

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter to get our newest articles instantly!

[mc4wp_form]
TAGGED: Climate change, Gangtok, News from Sikkim, Sikkim, Sikkim News
Suben Pradhan January 15, 2022 January 15, 2022
Share This Article
Facebook Twitter Copy Link Print
Share
Leave a comment Leave a comment

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Fast Four Quiz: Precision Medicine in Cancer

How much do you know about precision medicine in cancer? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
Get Started
ECI to begin Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls in Bihar

The Election Commission of India (ECI) today issued instructions for holding Special…

The irritating habits of some Babus and Babunis of stuck-up paper-pushers

You have been extraordinarily lucky if you have never fallen victim to…

Statewide checking of motor vehicles sets off; 66,703 plusunder the checklist

Gangtok, January 06 66,703 plus motor vehicles will be checked and their documents and other such necessities will be…

You Might Also Like

National

ECI to begin Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls in Bihar

By SC Desk
Politics

From hollow accusations to honest governance: the truth about Sikkim today

By SC Desk
OpinionsSC Stories

Woof Woof; A stray’s plea for kindness & compassion on our streets

By SC Bureau
SC StoriesSports

Bhaichung Bhutia slams AIFF as “Circus”, Kalyan Chaubey calls allegations baseless

By SC Bureau
Facebook Twitter Youtube Instagram
Company
  • About us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Disclaimer
  • ADVERTISE WITH US
  • Disclosure of Grievances
  • Support our Journalism
  • WORK WITH US
  • Contact
More Info
  • Innovate
  • Gadget
  • PC hardware
  • Review
  • Software

Sign Up For Free

Subscribe to our newsletter and don't miss out on our programs, webinars and trainings.

[mc4wp_form]

Join Community
© Copyright 2023, All Rights Reserved | The Sikkim Chronicle | Designed by Nanda Lall Sharma
adbanner
AdBlock Detected
Our site is an advertising supported site. Please whitelist to support our site.
Okay, I'll Whitelist
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Lost your password?