Climate Change Conversation History in 80 Sec

Kyoto to Copenhagen to Durban to Rio and now in Doha 194 nations are meeting again to discuss.. yeah to only discuss ..! Do we really feeling some heat of climate change or global warming ? No i am a developing nation i don't . It won't hurt us. Conference, get failed to find a breakthrough on sustainable development from the last 20 years.

Lets see how climate change talks have been running since its beginning

So leaders have already gathered in Doha Climate Change conference again to decide who caused it while time is slipping away. Outcome is not tough to guess for anybody and it is a proposal and decision for venue and time of next environmental talk.It is time for each of us to act and start being Eco friendly and living a life as environmentally as possible just by following small steps in our daily life routine.

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#Do You Know: Arctic Sea Ice To Hit Record Low This Year

Global warming is now on its fullest and showing its presence which can be felt across the globe. Now how much prepare you are. What are some smart ideas running in your mind to build a safe and protective planet from this giant? What sort of damage this relentlessly increasing warming can do to planet one can simply imagine it and what it is going to do in its latest addition just look for it.

Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is likely to shrink to a record small size sometime next week, and then keep on melting; a scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center revealed this.

“A new daily record … would be likely by the end of August,” said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the data center, which monitors ice in the Arctic and elsewhere. “Chances are it will cross the previous record while we’re still in sea ice retreat.”

The amount of sea ice in the Arctic is important because this region is a potent global weather-maker, sometimes characterized as the world’s air conditioner.

As parts of the Arctic melted, 2012 also set records for heat and drought in much of the Northern Hemisphere temperate zone, especially the continental United States.

This summer could see the ice retreat to less than 1.5 million square miles (4 million square km), an unprecedented low, Scambos said.

The previous record was set in 2007, when Arctic ice cover shrank to 1.66 million square miles (4.28 million square km), 23 percent below the earlier record set in 2005 and 39 percent below the long-term average from 1979 to 2000.

However, 2007 was a jaw-dropping “perfect storm” of conditions that primed the area for thawing sea ice: warmer and sunnier than usual, with extremely warm ocean water and winds all working together to melt the Arctic.

Last year, Arctic sea ice extended over the second-smallest area on record, but that was considered to be closer to a “new normal” rather than the extreme conditions of 2007, NSIDC said then.

If the sea ice record is broken this month, which would be unusually early in the season; last year’s low point came on September 9, 2011.

Overall, the decline of Arctic sea ice has happened faster than projected by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change five years ago, according to NSIDC data.

This summer has also seen unusual melting of the ice sheet covering Greenland, with NASA images showing that for a few days in July, 97 percent of the northern island’s surface was thawing. The same month also saw an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan break free from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier.

 “What you’re seeing is more Open Ocean than you’re seeing ice,” he said. “It just simply doesn’t look like what a polar scientist expects the arctic to look like. It’s wide open and the (ice) cap is very small. It’s a visceral thing. You look at it and that just doesn’t look like the Arctic Ocean anymore.”

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. - Chinese Proverb

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Does Your City Belong To C40 Cities..?

The very first question that simply comes in your mind, at this point is, what this C40 cities meant for..?  Yeah … right. You heard it correctly. Let me introduce you these C40 cities and also to introduce you how web technologies (Web 2.0, HTML5 apps, CSS and designing) and social media are now ready for combating to climate change and to lead us for sustainable Environment. It’s technology’s role in sustainable development?

“C40 is a network of the world’s megacities taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With a unique set of assets, the C40 works with participating cities to address climate risks and impacts locally and globally.” ~ C40.org

It’s a climate leadership group for fighting against the climate change and global warming in collaboration with every city across the globe with its resource assets and potential. It inspires to take action in every possible way for sustainable growth at the broad and individual level as well.  

Irrespective of where does it has been formed or who are backing this it’s for planet, it’s for climate. When it comes to creating big solutions for a sustainable future, cities are at the forefront of innovation. C40 is a network of the world’s megacities, a new online platform which aims to be at the forefront of discussions on green urban innovation. The new site C40.org highlights the actions taken by 58 of the world’s largest cities that are C40 members.

Do you find yours one in the list?  It’s time for action for everyone to help in making of  your city or town cleaner, greener, sustainable and environment friendly, then it’ll come in every such group on earth automatically. But if you need to accomplish the goal one definitely need collaborations and technology that’s what for C40 is.

C40 is using technology to tell the story of cities in a dynamic way and want to make mission consumable to the public. As cities are center of activities, industries, cultures and innovation so does has greater potential to come up with great solutions for environment degradation and can take actions efficiently. You can view it here the potential of a city.

Part of the new C40.org is a user-initiated scrolling infographic, built on HTML5. The site hopes to engage leaders by having them read about other cities’ programs and host conversations about cities’ roles in preventing climate change. Features include testimonials from some 4,700 completed initiatives, while another 1,500 are under way.

Does your city do anything to stop the onset of climate change?  Let us know in the comments if you’ve seen any great examples of urban leaders in sustainable development.

Photos : C40.org

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Let's Make Earth A Better Place To Live In- Mission Rio+20

The planet earth is begging some free, relaxed moments of our too busy day to day life. Why don’t we decide and accept it in this world Environment week. Peoples, closely watchful to deteriorating condition of earth, are turning the every possible stones to solve the problems that include Government bodies, United Nations and NGOs at different levels. Let’s pledge to make earth a better place to live in. To spread this message and create awareness among the public, WorldEnvironment Day (WED) 2012 is the right time to initiate solutions on environmental issues.

As we all know that entire world observes the World Environment Day or popularly known as Environmental Day every year on 5^th day of June. The day is celebrated keeping the goal of promoting awareness about the issues related to environment and importance of preserving our ecosystem and biodiversity. Most important aspect of the day is to promote the all possible corrective steps to compensate the so far damage and to prevent the further damage in future.

Hence to make the world a better place, many countries across the world have enacted laws to fight against the raising environmental issues. The idea behind such awareness programmes is to use Environmental Day as a strong and effective platform in protecting the environment and finding solutions for a sustainable living.

Every year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) selects a theme to observe World Environment Day, which also draws the attention for the need for an effective ecosystem management. This year theme is “Green Economy”. The programmes share the ideas to tackle environmental challenges that include natural disasters, global warming and toxic substances, so a message to our industry players and enterprises to look after the issue of environment and to establish a green ecosystem within their enterprises.

The theme for World Environment Day 2012 is Green Economy: Does it include you? In this theme, there are two parts: first, emphasizes the subject of the Green Economy to draw the attention of the people. The UN Environment Programme explains the theme the 'Green Economy' as a call to people in reducing environmental risks and carbon.

World Environment Day can play a vital role. So, let’s extend our full support to Environment Day 2012 to protect the forests, rivers and habitats and you know what we are gathering again to discuss the issues, to extend our supports, to work out plans, to spread and educate the people across the globe about this pivotal issue. This time at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for Global Environment conference  - on June 20, 2012.

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Do You Want to avoid Warming..! Just lock CO2 in rocks

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We know well that entire world community is worried about rising warming level of the earth and our scientist community is obsess with various potential solution to at least get some break.In a major such a effort was made recently this year in Iceland.

Earlier in this year, on the steaming fringes of an Icelandic volcano, an international team of scientists will begin pumping "seltzer water" into a deep hole, producing a brew that will lock away carbon dioxide forever. Chemically disposing of CO2,the chief greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, is a kind of 21st-century alchemy that researchers and governments have hoped for to slow or halt climate change.

The American and Icelandic designers of the "CarbFix" experiment will be capitalizing on a feature of the basalt rock underpinning 90% of Iceland: It is a highly reactive material that will combine its calcium with a CO2 solution to form limestone - permanent, harmless limestone. Researchers caution that their upcoming 6-to-12-month test could fall short of expectations, and warn against looking for a climate "fix" from CarbFix any year soon.

In fact, one of the objectives of the project, whose main sponsors are Reykjavik's city-owned utility and US and Icelandic universities, is to train young scientists for years of work to come. A scientific overseer of CarbFix - the man, as it happens, who also is credited with coining the term "global warming" four decades ago - says the world's failure to heed those early warnings, to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions from coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels, is driving scientists to drastic approaches.


"Whether we do it in the next 50 years, or the 50 years after that, we're going to have to store CO2," Columbia University's Wallace S Broecker said in an interview in New York. The world is already storing some CO2. As a byproduct of Norway's natural gas production, for example, it is being pumped into a sandstone reservoir beneath the North Sea. But people worrysuch stowed-away gas could someday escape, while CO2 transformed into stone would not. The experiment will take place below the landscape of this place 29 kilometers southeast of Reykjavik.

The experiment leads various enthusiastic and of course serious question like, would such practices if followed world wide,pose a potential threat for entire planet. What could be its potential consequence if anything goes wrong.Only time will clear the picture and the scope of the experiment.
source:The times of India

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