Is the phenomenon of global warming really that serious? Does it even exist? Do we even care? We answer all those questions and more...
Southern India: in the state of Andhra Pradesh, temperatures reached to as high as 120°F (48.9°C) resulting in the highest one-week death toll on record – the state has experienced a warming trend at the rate of 1°F (0.6°C) per century. Bangladesh: rising ocean levels have flooded about 18,500 acres of mangrove forests in Chokaria Sundarbans during the past three decades due to the global sea-level rise at 5.5 mm/year. China: in the Qinghai province, more than half of the 4,000 lakes have disappeared due to droughts. Siberia: large expanses of tundra permafrost are melting.
Horrifyingly, melting permafrost has already damaged 300 buildings in the cities of Norilsk and Yakutsk. The average temperature of the permanently frozen ground in Yakutsk has warmed by 2.7 °F (1.5°C) in the last three decades. Canada: the Athabasca Glacier has retreated about 0.5 km in six decades and has thinned dramatically since the 1950s. In British Columbia, the Wedgemont Glacier too has retreated hundreds of meters since 1979, as the climate has been warming at a rate of 2°F (1.1°C) per century, shockingly at twice the global average.
Does all this really point towards global warming to such an extent that we should start panicking? Well, the issue has gained popularity in the developed world (Europe specifically) but has not gone down so well in the third world as food and shelter are of greater importance than a 1.5°C rise in temperatures.
Southern India: in the state of Andhra Pradesh, temperatures reached to as high as 120°F (48.9°C) resulting in the highest one-week death toll on record – the state has experienced a warming trend at the rate of 1°F (0.6°C) per century. Bangladesh: rising ocean levels have flooded about 18,500 acres of mangrove forests in Chokaria Sundarbans during the past three decades due to the global sea-level rise at 5.5 mm/year. China: in the Qinghai province, more than half of the 4,000 lakes have disappeared due to droughts. Siberia: large expanses of tundra permafrost are melting.
Horrifyingly, melting permafrost has already damaged 300 buildings in the cities of Norilsk and Yakutsk. The average temperature of the permanently frozen ground in Yakutsk has warmed by 2.7 °F (1.5°C) in the last three decades. Canada: the Athabasca Glacier has retreated about 0.5 km in six decades and has thinned dramatically since the 1950s. In British Columbia, the Wedgemont Glacier too has retreated hundreds of meters since 1979, as the climate has been warming at a rate of 2°F (1.1°C) per century, shockingly at twice the global average.
Does all this really point towards global warming to such an extent that we should start panicking? Well, the issue has gained popularity in the developed world (Europe specifically) but has not gone down so well in the third world as food and shelter are of greater importance than a 1.5°C rise in temperatures.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
Zee Business Best B-School Survey 2012
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
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