Yesterday I got a chance to watch Al Gore’s documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" courtesy the tepid batting of Deccan chargers who charged nothing like a rampaging bull. Rohit Sharma saved the day for them. The documentary deals with global warming and is more like a presentation on global warming full of research data and figures which forces us to believe the inconvenient truth. It’s inconvenient to believe that every small step we take every day is leading to our own destruction and still we turn a blind eye to the monster which has already started rolling.
Although I didn't watch the full movie, again courtesy the maverick batting of viru, but I could not escape the consequences predicted in the movie. There was a graph in which the earth's temperature and CO2 content were plotted. The graph showed the causal relationship between the two and ceased the usually perceived correlated relation. The deeper the movie ploughed the deeper I found the survival of mankind in saddle. We usually think that the change would be gradual something like ice age or the best that it’s a cyclical change in the earth's atmosphere which has happened previously also. But here I got to know one fact about ice age that in Europe ice age had lasted 1000 years more than the rest of world. The reason being that a huge lake of ice was created in northern America covering most of the Canada and at the end of ice age this big pool of cold water found its way into the Atlantic and further delayed the onset of new climate in Europe. Now imagine what would happen if the floating ice cap of artic suddenly disappears. Firstly why would the artic cap disappear suddenly? Ice has a unique property of reflecting 90% of sunlight falling on it which happens to be just opposite of water which absorbs 90% of sunlight. That’s why we can find snow in manali even in summer days. But in the case of the artic which is a floating ice cap the problem gets compounded by the fact that it’s not only surrounded by warm water but there is warm water beneath it also. So even a minor change in the temperature of ocean can cause havoc in the ice bed and when it melts there will be a big climatic change in Europe as a big shield of heat close to the continent will cease to exist. The other consequence is more plausible that the most of the coastal areas would be gone due to rise in ocean level. Already the width of the huge ice bed has shrunk by few inches and everyday it’s shrinking faster than the previous day. Doesn’t it sound credible?
The story in a nutshell is that even a small change in the greenhouse gases can cause a spiralling change in the earth’s climate as it further creates problem which fastens the process of global warming. Ocean the cradle of 70% of living beings will pose the biggest threat as it will keep on accumulating big chunk of solar heat and one day this cradle of life will destroy everything.
Although I didn't watch the full movie, again courtesy the maverick batting of viru, but I could not escape the consequences predicted in the movie. There was a graph in which the earth's temperature and CO2 content were plotted. The graph showed the causal relationship between the two and ceased the usually perceived correlated relation. The deeper the movie ploughed the deeper I found the survival of mankind in saddle. We usually think that the change would be gradual something like ice age or the best that it’s a cyclical change in the earth's atmosphere which has happened previously also. But here I got to know one fact about ice age that in Europe ice age had lasted 1000 years more than the rest of world. The reason being that a huge lake of ice was created in northern America covering most of the Canada and at the end of ice age this big pool of cold water found its way into the Atlantic and further delayed the onset of new climate in Europe. Now imagine what would happen if the floating ice cap of artic suddenly disappears. Firstly why would the artic cap disappear suddenly? Ice has a unique property of reflecting 90% of sunlight falling on it which happens to be just opposite of water which absorbs 90% of sunlight. That’s why we can find snow in manali even in summer days. But in the case of the artic which is a floating ice cap the problem gets compounded by the fact that it’s not only surrounded by warm water but there is warm water beneath it also. So even a minor change in the temperature of ocean can cause havoc in the ice bed and when it melts there will be a big climatic change in Europe as a big shield of heat close to the continent will cease to exist. The other consequence is more plausible that the most of the coastal areas would be gone due to rise in ocean level. Already the width of the huge ice bed has shrunk by few inches and everyday it’s shrinking faster than the previous day. Doesn’t it sound credible?
The story in a nutshell is that even a small change in the greenhouse gases can cause a spiralling change in the earth’s climate as it further creates problem which fastens the process of global warming. Ocean the cradle of 70% of living beings will pose the biggest threat as it will keep on accumulating big chunk of solar heat and one day this cradle of life will destroy everything.
