Global warming...a necessity is required for new innovations..

For quite sometime now the talks about global warming have been rampant. Scientific or speculative...hoax or not....It is true that global warming is happening...It happens because of the ability of the greenhouse gases to retain heat. Now, the glaciers may be melting due to this or they may not be. Asian glaciers may or may not have the same rate of melting as the other ones. Melting of the Gangotri glacier may or may not be imminent but if we keep on emitting GHG's like that aren't they going to be at some time in the future??


IPCC said that the glaciers are melting and emission of GHG in the atmosphere should be limited. Raina commission headed by V.K.Raina researches the data from the last 150 years and concludes that the Gangotri glacier is not suffering from the effects of globalwarming because they are at much higher altitudes than the glaciers in Alaska. It says that the IPCC is passing on speculative judgements on the melting of glaciers by assuming to be melting in proportion to the speed of melting of Alaskan glaciers. They say that our glaciers are a completely different system as they are at much higher altitudes.

Does this mean that they won't melt ever??? Does this imply that himalayan glaciers are immune to the heating up of atmosphere?? Well....the truth is that as high as they are, they are still existent on the same planent as the Alaskan glaciers and they are destined to feel the aftermath of the climatic catastrophes if it occurs.

Now, some of us may be tempted to think that as they are not melting there is no need to convert to a Green road of development. Need has been at times been the mother of invention and innovation. In our way to pursuit of a green GDP we will have to allocate funds for researches. This will certainly lead to new innovations. We people have the tendency to be indolent with our measures. We try to search for new methods only when we are forced to do so. Thus the premise that global warming is not imminent coming from our leaders may be true for now. But it is not going to be always. Instead of searching for excuses for continuing on our current stance we should be thirsty for innovations.

A green road to development is a NEED....Because global warming is a reality...May or may not be now...But sure to be one in the future...