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Brief intro
Here one finds a collation of scientific articles, documents and research papers and hence it is 100 per cent acceptable. However this is warning by the Almighty Nature of the events that are to take place very soon. Even if Almighty Nature decided to pass the message of imminent world destruction through any top religious dignitary, people would not believe. Only language the people understand is science. So I was guided by the Almighty Nature in writing this document. Also, I feel I am not the author. Real Author is Almighty Nature even though I did the writing. All rights are reserved. No part of this of this and connected pages {contents}) shall be reproduced, translated into any other language, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means – electronic, mechanical, Xeroxing, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without prior permission from the copy right holder Keerthi Kelgama (kreethkala) However, for media reviews and comments, this condition is relaxed.
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Process of annihilation on massive scale was commenced on December 26, last year with tsunami, killing some three hundred thousand. The Guardian on April 13, and Indian papers on 14 (Hindustan Time & The Hindu) reported that: Avian flu – caught directly from birds (mainly chicken) which kills 07 cases out of 10 – would suddenly sweep through the human population, killing 70 million, according to World Health Organization estimates, a Nobel laureate warned. Peter Doherty of the University of Melbourne who shared the 1996 Nobel prize for medicine, said so, speaking at an assembly of laureates, Lyon, France, on April 12. 2005. People would never stop eating chicken, so this calamity of 70 million deaths (20 times the number of tsunami victims) can never be averted. I appeal you to stop eating meat and be hundred per cent sure that avian flu cannot kill you. And also there is another page on how to escape disasters caused by Almighty Nature. For that there is a link at the end of this page called Firststep.
A Pentagon report suggests that major European cities might sink under rising sea levels and Britain could have Siberian climate by 2020. Experts predicts that with the depleting ozone layer, effect of the sun and wind will become stronger. Global warming has hit the danger point and immediate steps are needed to reduce pollution to prevent extinction of human race, R Pachauri, the Indian-origin chairman of the Intergovernmental panel on climate change said. (PTI 24,1.05) ."The world has already reached the level of dangerous concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and immediate and very deep cuts in the pollution are needed if humanity is to survive," Pachauri said at a recent conference. A Russian scientist goes to the extent saying in the next 100 years all higher forms of life will disappear and only microbial life will remain.( Full articles of these introductory quotes are found later in the document.)
Richard Preston
author of “The hot zone” says: “AIDS
takes 10 years to kill its victim. The
Ebola virus takes as little as 10 hours. The world has already entered deadly
new age of plagues.”
The
Britain’s “Focus” predicted in 1998 that is in 20 years time people have to wear
protective plastic costume like the men who went to moon did, Otherwise the
type of diseases that overtakes them in
no time, could kill them. By then their immune system is completely destroyed.
The Focus did not forget to give the picture of the man
dressed in his new preventive kit forced on him.
Focus (1998) adds: British
Colombia University Professor Julian
Davis finds out that the viruses and
bacteria would become stronger and stronger that usual medicine would not be
able to destroy them. Most of the
population would suffer from infectious diseases. Supposing a patient
gets one type of illness and cured by some medicine, if he gets the same
illness again, the same treatment would not help, he said.
Boston University Professor
Steuart Lewis said that during history man found means of overcoming viral and
bacterial attacks. What happens is that those elements would again emerge in
stronger form. So the doctors would also go for still stronger medicines with
dangerous side effects.
According to Davis in another 20
years, that means within 12 years from 2005, every body has to get treatment at least four occasions a year for
infectious diseases. If it is repetition of the same disease, stronger
medicines have to be found because the bacteria or the virus has also become
successively stronger. Only way of preventing occurrence of it , is by wearing protective suit as did the
astronauts and cosmonauts when they went to outer space and the moon.
The 10 warmest years in the recorded history have
occurred in the last 15 years. While Europe battles with a heat wave, grass has
taken root in Antarctica. Global warming and the green house effect has led to
freakish weather conditions throwing up unexpected droughts, cyclones, rising
ocean levels, coral bleaching, retreating tropical glaciers, mega storms and
sudden snowstorms, like in UAE.
The arctic is getting hotter, polar ice caps are melting.
A fallout is that floods will inundate
marshes and estuaries damaging both human and animal habitats.
10,000 French heat victims
The Deccan Cronicle reported quoting BBC’s Paris datelined story
of August 25, 2003 thus: Hundreds of bodies of French heat wave victims are
reported to be lying unclaimed – some in refrigerated lorries.
Some
unclaimed victims whose identities are not known are being buried in unmarked
graves.
Up
to 10,000 people, many of them elderly
are believed to have died in Frances extreme summer temperatures of more than
40 Celsius (104f).
A
political row has been raging over who was to blame for the deaths and the
government perceived slow response to the crisis.
The
French newspaper Le Figaro said 300 to 400 bodies were
lying unclaimed in Paris alone. More
than 100 bodies of them are having to
be stored in refrigerated lorries in the Paris suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine, it
says. A refrigerated hanger of Rangis being used as an overflow mortuary
around 100 of the 160 bodies brought in since August 15, and they remained unclaimed, it
adds
"We
at WHO believe that the world is now in the gravest possible danger of a
pandemic" said Dr. Shguru Omi, the
World Health Organizations Western Pacific regional director.
Experts have
repeatedly warned the H5N1 bird flu virus could become far deadlier if it
mutates into a form that can be easily transmitted among humans, sparking a
global pandemic that could kill millions.
Speaking at
a opening of a three day bird flu
conference in Ho Chi Minh city, Omi said
it is critical that the international Community better coordinate its fight
against the virus.
In recent
outbreaks, bird flu has become deadlier than the strain found in 1997 in
Hong Kong, making the situation more urgent.
The mortality
rate among the identified patients who
contracted the disease from chickens and ducks is about 72 per cent.
Dr. Julie L Gerberding, head of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on February 23, 2005, her agency was preparing for a pandemic next year.
"If the
virus become highly contagious among humans, the health impact in terms of deaths and sickness will be
enormous and certainly much greater than SARS," Omi said, referring to
severe acute respiratory syndrome which killed nearly 800 people in 2003 (800 being killed I find
some contradiction in the reports)
This is why we
are urging all governments to work now on a pandemic preparedness plan - so that even on an emergency such as this
the government will be able to provide basic health services such as transport,
sanitation and power", he said.
The disease while
devastated the region's poultry
industry last year, has killed 45 people over the past year - 32 Vietnamese 12
Thais and one Cambodian - in cases largely traced to contact with sick birds/
(AP)
Hanoi AFP
reported on February 20, 2005 - The deadly flu outbreak which has hit several Asian countries and killed 45 people
since 2003, is a sword of Damocles over world a top UN official said on Sunday.
To
prevent the further spread of the disease requires both immediate and long term
action, director of animal health at the Food and Agriculture Organization,
Joseph Domenech said.
Countering
the virus will be the focus of a
regional conferences beginning on Wednesday in Vietnam's Southern
economic capital of Ho Chi Minh City,
"The time is ripe today for
the international community to see how the virus constitutes and enormous sword
of Damocles in terms of public health and the rural economy, Domenech said.
"The
conference has to acknowledge this, so we can take both urgent action and long term measures against the
disease."
The
H5N1 virus has already forced the culling of millions of birds in Asia.
Kalpana Jain/TNN carried the following report
on the Times of India headed
Millions could die of bird flu outbreak: New Delhi; Scientists have sounded a global alert on avian
flu following reports of human to human transmission of this virus.
Emergence of human cases of avian influenza, A (H5N1) virus in Asia is unprecedented warning”. They urged the world to put up safeguards while the storm is still gathering.
“A
virus with the potential to cause
pandemic could emerge suddenly by way of a single re-assortment event,
or more gradually by adoptive mutations during human infections, with the virus
incrementally improving its
transmissibility” says the NEJM
It
goes on to add how the virus has been
getting more and more lethal. It has
increased the environmental resistance and is expanding its mammalian
host range.; “All prerequisites for a pandemic have been met save one namely
genetic change in this virus that would allow to achieve human to human
transmission,” they say.
In
India monitoring group was set up by the director general of health services
when first serious reports of avian flu started coming in from neighboring
countries. Officials say that the government has been alerted and no cases have
been detected in India yet.
However
in the wake of the latest reports, a meeting is now slated.
During
2004 a highly lethal avian influenza,
A virus caused poultry diseases in 8
Asian countries and killed 32.
India’s The Statesman on its World
Focus reported the following n March 2,2005 headed: Vietnam reports 15th
bird flu death”quoting The Strait Times/ ANN
thus: Hanoi March 1 - A 21 year old man from Northern Vietnaam
had died of bird flue becoming the 15th victim of the disease in the
past two months.
The Health
Ministry said that the man died on Monday at Hanoi’s Institute of Tropical
Medicine after several days on a respirator, battling a raging fever.
With
the latest fatality 35 people have died in Vietnam since late 2003 in several
out breaks of the disease. Another 12 have died in Thailand.
35
of the Vietnam’s 64 provinces and cities have been hit by bird flu this year
and more than 1.5 million poultry have
been destroyed in a bid to control the disease. The WHO’s Regional Director Shigeru Omi warned at an
international conference on bird flu in Ho Chi Min City last week of a gravest
possible danger of pandemic.
Meanwhile reports
are that a 14 year old Vietnam resident
has contracted the deadly bird flu, the third human case in the past
week in the Northern Thai Binh province, health officials confirmed. The girl
tested positive for H5N1 virus, said Dr. Niguen Duc Hien, director of the
tropical disease unit at Hanoi’s Bach
Mai Hospital. Her 21 year old brother was confirmed to have the disease
and is currently in critical condition in the same hospital.
Provincial
Officials have said that the two had eaten chicken at a friend’s house during Chinese New Year festivities. The
family does not raise poultry, but there have been bird flue outbreaks in their
neighborhood.
On Sunday,
officials said a 69 year old man from
the same province died from bird flu on Wednesday. The 14th fatality
from the same disease in 09 weeks. The man had eaten chicken with his family
during Chinese New Year, health official said. None of his family members
reported symptoms.
Health officials have raised alarm
about Thai Binh province where another suspected case – that of a 36 year old
man – is now being tested. “We are very worried about the bird flu” said Dr.
Pham Van Diu , director of Thai Binh Preventive Medicine Center. “Thai Binh is
and agricultural province with many farmer families involved in backyard
poultry farming. It is therefore very difficult to deal with.”
Lawrence K Altman of New York Times (February 14) The Hindustan
Times on February 15 : AIDS virus isolated from 2 people being studied to determine whether either
might be the source of as rare and potentially more aggressive form of HIV
detected in a New York city man, an
AIDS scientist involved in the studies said on Monday.
Many
more tests need to be conducted to determine if the strains from these people
are the same, said the scientist, David |Ho. He directs the Aaron Diamond AIDS
research center in Manhattan which is conducting some of the studies in
collaboration with the New York City health department.
While
some findings may be available in a week, others will take longer, Dr. Ho said
in an interview.
Even
if the strains prove to be the same, that would not necessarily mean that the super virus is on the loose,
since there could be no genetic factors in the first man that would make his
infection progress faster.
"What
we can't prove is that this is a super virus and that caused the rapid
progression from infection to AIDS, in the New York city man, Dr. Ho said,
Tests in Ho's laboratory and elsewhere have shown that the strain from the man
whose case started the investigation is resistant to 19 of the 20 anti- retroviral drugs. AIDS experts said that the
strain might have led to the rapid
onset of AIDS in the man or that his immune defenses might have been weakened
by drug use or genetics.
Molecular tests of the Man's HIV show it has changes that appear to differ significantly from the typical strains being circulated in New York City.
Meanwhile the Hindustan Times
on April 5 reported that a research done at All India Medical Sciences show
that Indians are genetically weak and therefore AIDS virus spread in them
faster. It may be that the Super virus would have made its way into India
too. But one thing is clear, that HIV
has begun to grow into AIDS in a double quick time.
Throughout the
world, Anti malaria and anti-mosquito campaigns are on headed by top scientists. But mosquitoes emerge with stronger form while scientists
failed miserably to achieve their goal of destroying them totally and
completely. Now a large number of people in world cannot live without mosquito
coils which is a very big business to
day. If inhaling mosquito coil smoke makes the mosquito give up its food and
hang
elsewhere, it could definitely produce greater illnesses inhuman beings.
That apart,
Mosquiteo can produce a new kind of fever which is extremely fatal.
Rare plague kills 61 in Congo
A rare form of plague has killed at least 61 at a diamond mine in the remote wilds of northeast Congo and authorities fear hundreds more who have fled into the forests to escape the contagion are infected and dying, the World Health Organization said on February 18, 2005, Eric Bertherat, a doctor for the UN Health Agency said that outbreak has been building since December around a mine near Zobia, 300 kilometers north of Kisangani, the capital of the vast Oriental province. Nearly all the 7000 minors have abandoned the infected area and sought refuge in the world’s second largest tropical rain forest, all but cut off from the outside world. Security fears – mainly from bandits and militia leftover from the Congo’s five year old war – have also slowed international response, Bertherat said. The Plague is spread mainly by fleas and causes an infection in the lungs. That slowly suffocates its victim.
Darling virus
Doctors across the city too are on the alert. The problem is that the treatment may get delayed as the symptoms of infection are similar to that of the common viral fever. We have to look out for rashes on the body,” said Dr. Ahutosh Shukla, consultant, Max Healthcare clinics
Human race to be
extinct [ January 24, 2005]
London: Global warming has hit the danger
point and immediate steps are needed to reduce pollution to prevent extinction
of human race, R Pachauri, the Indian-origin chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change said.
"The world has already reached the level of dangerous concentrations of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and immediate and very deep cuts in the
pollution are needed if humanity is to survive," Pachauri said at a recent
conference of Small Island Developing States in Mauritius.
"Climate change is for real.
We have just
a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a
moment to lose," he told reporters at the conference which was attended by
representatives from 114 countries.
"Widespread dying of coral reefs, and rapid melting of ice in the Arctic,
has driven me to the conclusion that the danger point the IPCC has been set up
to avoid has already been reached," Pachauri said.
Reefs throughout the world are perishing as the seas warm up: as water
temperatures rise, they lose their colours and turn a ghostly white. Partly as
a result, up to a quarter of the world's corals have been destroyed.
A multi-year study by 300 scientists in November concluded that the Arctic ice
was warming twice as fast as the rest of the world and that its ice cap had
shrunk by up to 20 per cent in the past three decades.
The ice is also 40 per cent thinner than in the 1970s and is expected to
disappear altogether by 2070.
According to a report published in The Independent on Sunday, Pachauri's
remarks were given a hostile reception by the Bush administration
Future disasters can kill more
Andrew Levin New York Times News Service Jan
3, 2005, said: In seven hours last week, great ocean waves scoured shores from Thailand to Somalia, exacting a terrible price in wealth
and human lives. But the
unimaginable as it may seem, future
catastrophes may be far more grimmer.
Many more such disasters from
earth quakes, volcanic eruptions to
floods, mudslides, droughts are likely
to devastate countries already hard hit by poverty and political turmoil. (It is wrong for the New
York Times to say that Almighty nature could exact a greater price from the
poorer and those suffer from political turmoil. However Andrew Lewin
himself contradict it at latter stage of the article. This is
definitely a wrong explanation of what is going to happen. Almighty Nature
would definitely not take sides. When the time comes devastation could be
grimmer in the developed countries.
Levin adds: The world has already seen a
sharp increase in such natural disasters – from about 100 a year
in the 1960s to as many as 500
a year by early 2000s, said Daniel
Sarovitz, a professor of Science and Society at Arizona State
University. But it is not that earth quakes, tsunamis and other such calamities have become stronger and
more frequent. What has changed is
where people live and how they live, say the experts who study the
physics of such events and the human
responses to their aftermath.
A
new technology allows or as poverty demands, rich and poor alike have pushed into soggy flood plains, or
drought-ridden deserts, built on impossibly steep slopes and created vast fragile cities along fault
lines that tremble with alarming
frequency. Iin Sumatra again 2000 people died of earth quake on March 29, 2005
Article adds: In that sense
catastrophes are as much the result of
human choices as they are of geology or
Hydrology, Kerry Sieh, a veteran seismologist at the California Institute of
Technology, has spent years studying some of he world’s wealthiest
and poorest earth quake prone territories – not only the faults of Sumatra’s west coast that caused last
weeks tsunami but also california’s San Andreas fault which could with sudden
twitch, submerge the inhabitants of some of the most valuable
land on earth.
Difference
between, the rich and the poor
countries,Sieh said was that the rich ones have improved their building techniques and political systems to deal with the inevitable disasters.
The Hindu (Delhi Februry 2005) carried the following headed Oceans provide clinching proof of global warming, by Anand Parthasarathy
Feb 19. The truth is there – the world’s oceans, the amount of energy going into them
far exceed anything that can be
explained by natural causes such as volcanoes solar radiation. There is only
one explanation that fits the facts and the answer to the “whodunit” is :man.
Results of these separate
studies by research institutes announced since Thursday, at the annual meeting
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC.,
agree there is little doubt that man made green house gases are the major cause
of global climate change.
Scientists of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography revealed
after analyzing millions of temperature readings that the ocean covering 70 per
cent of the earth’ surface have heated up dramatically over the last 40 years –
even 800m down in tandem with the
rising levels of green house gases
emitted by human activity on land.
“The debate is now over”,
according to the Scripps marine scientist, Tim Burnett. The “smoking gun” of
global warming that every one has been looking for those lies in the oceans.
Melting ice
Another study, led by
Ruth Curry of the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution , found that melting ice
in the Greenland’s ice cap and else where, was changing the water cycle and
would first affect the ocean currents and then global climate.
A third study by the
university of Miami found that melting
Arctic ice was washing away algae, and important part of the animal food
chain on the frozen continent.
Ironically all these
results announced in the last few days are based on research done in the United
States, the “odd man out” who refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol reducing greenhouse emissions that went into effect
on February 16. Ratified by 141 nations, it bound the 35 industrialized countries to reduce their emissions by
2112 to 5 per cent less than the levels
prevalent in 1990.
The US position
remained inflexible in the face of this fresh evidence “ Our position has been the same for long time….the science of global change is
uncertain,” a spokesman for the White House Committee on Environmental Quality,
said.
Developing Nations at fault
The US objection since 2001 has
tended to point the finger at developing nations such as India and China, who
currently exempt by the Kyoto Protocol from specific quotas for reduction,
while required to work towards greenhouse gas reduction. “Why should they get
away with it” has been the spirit of many official US objections, ignoring what
the global community took note –of – the fact that that the industrialized
world became “developed” on the fettered use of coal, oil and gas for over a
century and that the US remains the biggest producer of carbon dioxide.
But there is a strong
industrialized lobby that now points the finger at the developed world – that
China is No 2 and India No 5 in carbon dioxide emission – and suggests that in
fact these countries are developing much faster than many so-called developed
nations. This has tended to justify suspicions that the roots of American objection to any break on
conspicuous energy consumption are commercial and related to fear about
losing economic clout.
(It was rather revealing of
Western mindsets and knee-jerk responses that the Reuters news agency, which
issued dozens of photographs during the Kyoto Protocol talks last week., chose
to release pictures of factory chimneys and heavy vehicular traffic in Delhi to
illustrate the theme of global warming when in fact the event mark the
beginning of emission curbs by the developed nations.)
Warming Arctic affects global weather
[ January 26,
2005]
Washington: Changes in the Arctic
environment, especially those over the past decade, could lead to dramatic
swings in weather and climate patterns across the rest of the globe, with
potentially far-reaching consequences for ecosystems and human populations,
according to a study.
A research led by
atmospheric scientist Jiping Liu of the Georgia Institute of Technology has
shown that the total Arctic sea ice extent and area decreased by 30,848 sq km
per year in 1978 and 35,372 sq km per year in 2002. The study used ice data
derived from US space agency Nasa and the defence department’s meteorological
satellites.
Ground-based surface temperature data showed that the rate of warming in the
Arctic from 1981 to 2001 was eight times greater than the rate over the last
100 years, Nasa said in a release. Arctic spring, summer and autumn have each
become warmer, lengthening the seasons when sea ice melts from 10 to 17 days
per decade, it said.
“If the trends continue, Arctic sea ice will become much thinner in winter and
almost non-existent in the summer, in keeping with increased greenhouse loading
in the atmosphere,” Liu said.
The Arctic is important for the world’s climate because it acts as a
“collection bed” for the world’s excess energy. But if the climate continues to
warm faster in the Arctic than at lower latitudes, this transfer of heat will
slow down, weakening overall atmospheric circulation, he said. Weakening
circulation may alter storm tracks and their intensity, but the most profound
impact would be on temperature.
Proof’s in the heating
Reuter (Feb 18) said : A parcel of studies looking at the oceans and
melting arctic ice leave no room for doubt that it is getting warmer; people
are to blame and the weather is going to suffer climate experts said on
Thursday. New computer models that
look at the ocean temperatures instead of the atmosphere show the clearest
signal yet that global warming is well underway, said Tim Barnett of the Sripps
Institution of Oceannography.
Speaking at an
Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Barnett said that climate models based
on air temperatures are weak because
most of the evidence for the global warming is not even there.
Real place to look
is in the ocean, Barnett said. His team used millions of temperature readings
made by the US National Oceanic And Atmospheric administration to calculate
steady oceanic warming. “The debate over whether or not there is a global
warming signal is now over, at least for rational people, he said.
The report was
published one day after the United Nations
Kyoto Protocol took over the fact, a
141 nation environmental pact, the United states has spurned for several reasons including stated doubts
whether global warning is occurring and is caused by people. Barnett urged
United States Officials to reconsider.
Could a climate
system do all this on its own? The answer certainly is no” Tim Barnett said.
Alarm bells: Glaciers thinning in Antarctica
By Larry Rohter New York
Times New Service (Jan. 26,2006)
Over the Abhott ice shelf
(Antarctica)From the airplanes at 500 feet,
all that is visible here is a vast white emptiness. Ahead a chalky plane
stretches as far as the eye can see, the monotony is broken only by a few gentle
rises and the wrinkles created when new sheets of ice form.
Under the surface
of that ice, though profound and potentially troubling, changes are taking
place and at the quickened pace with temperatures climbing in parts of
Antarctica in recent years, melt ice water seems to be penetrating deeper and
deeper into ice crevices, weakening immense, seemingly impregnable formations
that have developed over thousands of years.
As a result
huge glaciers in this and other remote
areas of Antarctica are thinning and ice shelves, the size of American states
are either disintegrating or retreating
- all possible indication of global warming. Scientists from British
Antarctic Survey reported in December that in some parts of the Antarctic
peninsula hundreds of miles, a large growth of grass are appearing in
the places that until recently were hidden under the frozen cloak.
The relationship between the glaciers (essentially frozen rivers) and ice shelves protruding from the land and floating on the ocean is complicated and not fully understood. But the scientists like to compare the spot where the “tongue” of the glacier flows to sea in the form of an ice shelf to a cork in a bottle
The Hindu on Aril 28,05 quoting The Guardian ( Paul Brown) says how the Cambridge University dashed the hopes of Ozone layer being on the mend. Overall 30 per cent of the ozone layer was destroyed., said Marcus Rex from Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, Germany. On April 26, 05, John Pyle from Cambridge said:" These were the lowest levels of ozone recorded since measurements began 40 years ago. We thought the things would start to get better because of phasing out of CFCs and other chemicals because of the Montreal Protocol, but his has not happened.
Geneva: Himalayan glaciers, including
the Gangotri, are receding at one of
the fastest rates in the world due to global warming threatening water
shortages for millions of people in India, China and Nepal, a leading
conservation Group said on Monday.
The
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said
in a new study that Himalayan glaciers were receding 10 to 15 meters per year
on average and that the rate was accelerating
as global warming increases.
In
India the Gangotri glacier is receding
at an average rate of 23 meters per year, the study said.
"Himalayan
glaciers are among the fastest retreating glaciers globally due to the effects
of global warming." the WWF said in a statement.
"This
will eventually results in water shortages for hundreds of millions of people
who rely on glacier dependent rivers in
India, China and Nepal", it said
Himalayan
glaciers feed seven Asia's greatest rivers - Ganga, Indus, Brahmaputra,
Salween, Mekong, Yangtze and Huang He.
The
rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers will first increase, the volume of water in
the rivers, causing widespread flooding" said Jannifer Morgan, director
of WWF's global climate change
programme.
But
in few decades, this situation will
change and the water levels in rivers will decline, meaning massive economic and environmental problems for
people in Northern India, Western China and Nepal."
WWF released the study the study before this week's two day ministerial meeting in London of the 20 greatest energy consuming countries. The meeting will be followed by a G-8 Conference that will focus on climate change in Africa.
The only remedy is to take steps to mend the ozone layer. Natural storage and saving of water done in the form of ice and kept for thousands of years melting only a little to the rivers. With the global warning the process would be stopped and all water would be gradually released into the rivers finishing all the ice in a matter of few decades.
The
WWF called for work toward reducing carbon dioxide emissions - blame for global
warming - plus increasing the use of renewable energy and energy saving measures (Reuters)
Man kills animals and fish. Thereby
it antagonize the Almighty nature because it was his creation and that upset the balance
of the nature. This would also contribute a great deal to world destruction
that is in the offing. The Hindustan
Times reported in the month of March that: Tiger skins are sold in India
at Rs.50,000 and Tiger genitals at Rs.35000. Almighty Nature definitely not
like his own creatures are haphazardly killed. There is no point in wrongfully
interpreting the scriptures in order to kill animals
The following two news items would prove to you
the truth of what happens animal life and marine life.
The Times of India of March 21 in page 12 carried the above
headed article. Among others it said:
How many endangered? Around the
world, 8322 species have been identified as endangered and 2853 are critically
endangered. As many as 60 species have been identified as extinct in the wild.
In India, 206 are endangered and 84 have been
classified as critically endangered.
What are the major reasons for the
extinction of the species?
Biologists believe that human
activity has meant an accelerated rate of change in habitat for all the
world's creatures. This accelerated change means that there is not enough time
for the creatures to evolve naturally. Biologists believe we might be in the
midst of the mass extinction since the time dinosaurs disappeared off the face of earth 65 million years ago
and some estimate that a species a day is
wiped off the face of earth forever. Four major reasons have been
identified for the extinction of the species.
The
primary cause is believed to be the destruction of habitat by human activities.
The fragmentation of habitats reduces the genetic diversity of the species and
make them less adaptable to
environmental or climatic change, resulting in small populations which are
highly vulnerable to extinction.
Since 1600s,
commercial exploitation of animal for food and other products worldwide has
caused many species to become extinct or endangered.
Thirdly. nonnative species introduced to a new ecosystem also caused serious native species declines.
Lastly,
pollution is an important cause of extinction. Toxic chemicals especially
chlorinated hydrocarbons such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have become concentrated in food webs, the
interconnected food chains that circulate energy through an ecosystem. These
toxic chemicals strongly affect species near the top of the food chain.
When marine life turned to deathMarch 08, 2005
Human casualty figures in the wake of a tragedy have a
numbing effect how do you react when you hear that over 150,000 (Now estimated
to be over 300,000) people were
killed by the tsunami? However, the horrific scale of the human tragedy meant
that scant attention was paid to another critical aspect the destruction
wrought on marine life and ecosystems.
Even as attention was focused on the mounting human toll in the days after the
tsunami, 19 sperm whales were mysteriously found washed up on several beaches
in Australia.
Sea turtles already endangered species were hit too, by the tsunami. A single hatchery in Sri
Lanka saw seven rare green turtles and 20,000 eggs washed away.
While the direct impact of the tsunami was on considerable amount of fish, dolphins, sea
turtles and sharks were found on seashores all along the affected area the
damage to fragile marine ecosystems, already wilting under the strain of human activity.
Coral reefs critical components of the marine ecosystem are diverse complex
structures. Apart from the direct impact of the tsunami, large amounts of
sediments and debris that were thrown into the ocean created turbidity clouds
that could wreak havoc on coral reefs that need sunlight to survive. Some
reports say coral reefs could take up to 30 years to recover completely
There is also considerable concern
for green leather back turtles, which used to nest on the beaches of the Great
Nicobar Island towards the south of the Nicobar archipelago. The beaches have
been washed away. The endangered species of Dugong, the grass-eating underwater
mammals, also known as the legendary mermaids due to their half-woman,
half-fish looks, have lost the grasslands that were their habitat in the
Andaman Islands.
the beaches of the Great Nicobar Island towards the south of the Nicobar
archipelago. The beaches have been washed away.
Mangroves tropical inter-tidal forests that support a huge variety of marine
organisms and are considered vital nursery areas for many species of fish and
crustaceans have also been severely inundated by the tsunami. However, amidst
all the bad news, there's also been an unexpected stroke of fortune for marine
life.
Several countries affected by the tsunami have lost large numbers of fishing
vessels, which augurs well for their survival. In Tamil Nadu, around 80% of the
small-scale fishing fleet is estimated to have been affected. In Sri Lanka too,
around 75% of fishing vessels have been either lost or damaged, and similar
levels of destruction have taken place in western Indonesia. Ten of Sri Lanka's
12 major fishing ports have been seriously affected, with damage to facilities
such as cold storage facilities and slipways.
Figures from other countries are less comprehensive, but surveys suggest that
Thailand has lost more than 4,000 boats. It is thought that Somalia has lost
more than 2,000, and the Maldives is without some third of its fleet, all of
which spells good news for marine life in these regions, even if only
temporarily.
Nuclear threat (Nine nations have 30,000 nukes)
Vienna: In 1961, President John F Kennedy
warned that the human race could exterminate itself at any moment. “Every man,
woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the
slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or
miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they
abolish us,” Kennedy told the United Nations General Assembly.
That General Assembly adopted an Irish draft resolution,
which resulted in the 1968 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the global
pact to halt the spread of atomic weapons that required the five nuclear powers
to take steps to disarm.
The NPT came into force in 1970, but the sword still hangs.
Nine countries possess some 30,000 atomic weapons — enough to destroy the
planet many times over — and dozens more could build a bomb if they wanted to.
With this in mind, the 189 countries which signed the NPT
meet in New York in May to review its strengths and loopholes.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian who heads the Vienna-based
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says there are three reasons why the
treaty is in urgent need of review.
“They are the emergence of a nuclear black market, result of
determined efforts by more countries to acquire technology to produce the
fissile material usable in nuclear weapons and the clear desire of terrorists
to acquire weapons of mass destruction,” ElBaradei wrote in an article in February.
Despite the increasing threat of a nuclear holocaust, Gary
Samore, a security expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies
in London, said the NPT signatories were now too divided to agree on anything
that would improve the situation.
Some want the conference to pass a resolution calling for
universal acceptance of a tougher regime of IAEA inspections, created after the
1991 discovery of Saddam’s covert atom bomb programme in Iraq. But Samore said
this was unlikely.
“The problem is there’s not an international consensus,” said
Samore. “I predict sound and fury signifying nothing. The NPT review conference
is not going to produce a positive result.”
The situation does not look good for the NPT. Four countries
— India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea — are outside the pact.
The NPT’s five nuclear powers — the United States, Russia,
France, Britain and China — have yet to scrap their arsenals, and Washington
and Moscow are exploring new weapons. This, experts say, encourages other
countries to go for the bomb.
Making matters worse, the IAEA is still trying to stamp out a
global nuclear black market linked to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced engineer
who built Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme. Khan supplied Libya, Iran and
North Korea with centrifuge technology used to make atomic fuel for power
plants or bombs.
ElBaradei has described this network as a virtual
‘supermarket’ for states interested in getting the bomb.
Khan is under house arrest and much of his network has been
dismantled. But UN diplomats and nuclear experts say Pakistan has developed new
illicit channels to upgrade its own uranium enrichment program, raising
concerns that rogue nations and terrorist groups can still acquire bomb
technology. Pakistan denies this, saying its equipment is all home made.
Non-US diplomats accuse Washington of turning a blind eye to
Pakistan, which has never allowed either the IAEA or US authorities to
interrogate Khan. Reuters
US designing no-nonsense nukes
Worried that the nation's aging
nuclear arsenal is increasingly fragile, American scientists have begun
designing a new generation of nuclear arms meant to be sturdier and more
reliable and to have longer lives, federal officials and private experts say.
The officials say the program
could help shrink the arsenal due to high cost of its maintenance. But critics
say it could needlessly resuscitate the complex of factories and laboratories
that make nuclear weapons and could possibly ignite a new arms race. So far,
the quiet effort involves only $9 million for warhead designers at the nation's
three nuclear weapon laboratories, Los Alamos, Livermore and Sandia. Federal
bomb experts at these heavily guarded facilities are now scrutinizing secret
arms data gathered over a half century for clues about how to achieve the new
reliability goals.
The relatively small initial programme, involving fewer than 100 people, is
expected to grow and produce finished designs in the next 5 to 10 years,
culminating, if approval is sought and won, in prototype warheads. Most
important, officials say, the effort marks a fundamental design philosophy.
For decades, the bomb makers sought to use the latest technologies and most
innovative methods. The resulting warheads were lightweight, very powerful and
in some cases so small that a dozen could fit atop a slender missile. The
American style was distinctive. Most other nuclear powers are years behind the
atomic curve and often lacking top skills and materials, settled for less.
Their nuclear arms tended to be ponderous if dependable, more like Chevys than
race cars.
Now, American designers are studying how to reverse course and make arms that
are more robust, in some ways emulating their rivals in an effort to avoid the
uncertainties and deteriorations of nuclear old age. Federal experts worry that
critical parts of the arsenal, if ever needed, may fail.
Originally, the roughly 10,000 warheads in the American arsenal had an expected
lifetime of about 15 years, officials say. The average age is now about 20
years, and some are much older. Experts say a costly federal program to assess
and maintain their health cannot ultimately confirm their reliability because a
global test ban forbids underground test detonations.
In November, Congress okayed an unnoticed budget item that started the effort —
Reliable Replacement Warhead program. NYT News Service
Nuclear holocaust could come about in 2006..When Eliyahu
Ripps Professor of Mathematics at
Hebrew University Israel, fed the Tora (First five books of the original
Hebrew Bible) to a computer, he found
predictions in it., on the other way. It predicted Kennedy deaths World wars
etc. etc as well as the killing of Israeli prime minister Rabin giving even the name of the killer. Rabin was informed of it in time but he did not take
adequate security measures. These predictions were recorded in a book called
Bible code. Bible code say there would
be a nuclear annihilation year 2006. If one studies international political
situation carefully, the nuclear annihilation talked about in the Bible Code
cannot be totally ruled out.
As I suggested earlier 4 five billions of people would die but the animal and men who knows how to live in accordance with all the laws of nature would survive. But one must understand that Almighty Nature expect each creature to be guided by the specific laws imposed on each them., However, I would be giving idea on how to live in accordance with all the laws of nature.
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