Saturday 12 December 2009: Climate activists made protests against the politicians slow developments at the COP15 Climate Meeting in Copenhagen
The politicians and other delegates at official UN Climate Meeting are making slow progress, whereas several parallel meetings in Copenhagen, Denmark held by NGOs and climate activists are faster to agree. They demand immediate actions to stop the global climate changes.
During the climate meeting almost 40,000 protesters participated in a large demonstration in Copenhagen. The demonstrators gathered in front of Christiansborg, the Danish Parliament to march against the Bella Conference Center where the climate conference is held. The march went on for almost three hours and was a peaceful demonstration. However, the Copenhagen Police arrested close to 1,000 persons because the police suspected them to have made plans of organized violence.
Comment (0)The Thorthormi Glacier is now a lake in Bhutan
It would be a false belief if one imagined that warmer weather was appreciated in the cold mountainous areas. The consequences of the global warming is not pleasant but a disaster.
One example of what can be expected is exemplified by what has happened in Bhutan, Himalaya. The large glacier Thorthormi has melted during the last 20 years; what used to be permanent ice is now a lake. However, water is not as stable and solid as ice. There is therefore a big risk of a landslide, or rather ‘waterslide’; and when the rim around the lake eventually will burst, it will be a catastrophe with thousands of casualties, and even more homeless.
In the Himalaya the Thorthormi is not the only ‘melt down’. The ongoing tendency of melting glaciers will result in a disaster, not only in the Himalaya, but even worse in the surrounding areas at a lower altitude. Some of the big rivers will change from providing a steady supply of water, and instead they will be torrent floods during a few months of the year, but dried out rivers for about 6 months per year.
The result will most likely be that more than 100 million people in Asia will become refugees because of the climate changes.
Comment (1)The Government of the Maldives Islands had it’s first underwater meeting
On October 17, the government of Maldives in the Indian Ocean had an underwater governmental meeting. The ministers were wearing scuba diving equipment and the meeting took place at a depth of 3.8 meter!
The meeting was a signal to the rest of the world. The country has more than 1,000 islands, but the average height is only 1.5 meter. If the global warming isn’t stopped in time, then the water level of the oceans will increase more than the land’s surface.
The result will be that the first country of the world is extinct.
But it will not be the only country that will have severe problems for it’s people. Even countries in the mountains will experience problems; at first, the melting of the glaciers might cause floods, but later the absence of the glaciers will result in a shortage of drinking water for millions of people. I cold areas with permafrost, the soil and underground will be soft and the buildings in areas like Siberia will collapse.
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The consequences of the increase in global temperature:
The consequences of an increase in global temperature are enormous: The continuing decrease of glaciers in mountainous regions and the ice in the Arctic will cause the extinction of many species, and it will also have a great impact on agricultural yields. The increase in global temperature might also be the cause for recent extreme weather events worldwide. We have experienced, more frequent than usual, damaging hurricanes and tropical storms during the last decade.
Even though most scientists are worried and have given several recommendations to the politicians, then really effective steps remain yet to be taken. The present Kyoto Protocol about environmental precautions has been signed by many governments, but it has not been ratified by all, and fewer are actually complying with the agreed intentions of the Kyoto Protocol. In particular, it has been damaging for the world’s climate that the USA continue to refuse to ratify the agreement, and it is obvious that the USA is contributing to the problem by a major share of the global emission of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses.
Comment (0)Globalwarming or Globalheating?
It is getting more and more hot all over the Globe. The average temperature is increasing dramatically, and the results are the melt down of the glaciers, the ice on Greenland, and the Antarctic. Most scientists agree upon that the climatic changes are a serious threat to the present way of living for many people all over the world. Only very few scientists dispute this fact, some (even fewer) claim that we do not face ‘warming’ but that the next phase will be an ice age.
However, to call the present problems for warming is an understatement. It is heating! So consequently the name of this threat ought to be: Globalheating! – Vote here whether it should be called Globalwarming, Globalheating, or something entirely different:
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