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GLOBAL WARMING
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Friday 29 January 2010

What are we going to be taking
about...

• What is global Warming? (Brief Overview)

• How do we contribute on a daily basis?

• Why we need to act now?

• How to make a positive contribution?


WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?


http://climate.nasa.gov/ClimateTimeMachine/climateTimeMachine.cfm

Visual Global Average Temperature

A CLOSER LOOK 1880-2007

WHY IS IT HEATING UP?


CO2 OVER 6,50,000 YEARS

HOW ARE WE CONTRIBUTING
ON DAILY BASIS?


ENERGY
The DIRECT Carbon Footprint


Thermal/Fossil Fuels Hydro Nuclear Other Renewable

INDIA ENERGY PRODUCTION Source: Ministry Of
Power, India



8%
3%

25%

65%

INDIA ENERGY PRODUCTION Source: Ministry Of
Power, India


AUTOMOBILES

ONE-TIME-USE-SYNDROME
The INDIRECT Carbon Footprint


Plastic Bag!

FROM THE STUPID TO THE
RIDICULOUS


PAPER TOWELS/TISSUES

WAIT A MIN..... DOESN’T ALL THIS
GET RECYCLED!!

If everything was Recycled we would NOT have this...


RECYCLING IS NOT NIRVANA
It requires ENERGY == CO2


BUT I HARDLY CONTRIBUTE!

1/person/day


1/person/day 500/day



11,000/month



11,000/month
1,82,500/year


The Population of the World
7 6.7 Billion

6 Billion

5

3.69 Billion
Billions

4

2.52 Billion

1.65 Billion
2

0.978 Billion

0
1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 1 July 2008
Years


Given ‘s’, where ‘s’ is your effort....

lim s × 0 = 0
s→0

INFINITIES AND ZEROS


lim s × 0 = 0
s→0

lim



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s→0

lim
→



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s→0

lim s
→



lim s × 0 = 0
s→0

lim s
s
→



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s→0

lim s ×
s→



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s→0

lim s ×
s→
=



lim s × 0 = 0
s→0

lim s × ∞ =
s→



lim s × 0 = 0
s→0

lim s × ∞ = ∞
s→



lim s × 0 = 0
s→0

lim s × ∞ = ∞
s→ 0


FINE.. ITS HEATING UP. BIG DEAL!
Signiﬁcance of ‘One’ Degree!


AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF
EARTH

* Average mean between 1850 - 1870


EARTH
13.6 °C *



EARTH
13.6 °C *
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
TODAY
14.4 °C


GLOBAL WARMING
===
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE!

% Area

19%
9%
72%

Subdivisions Distribution
25

19
Subdivisions

13
23
6
10
0
3
Type
Deﬁcient Normal Excess


Average Actual % Deviation

Southern Karnataka Weekly Rainfall from 01 June - 7 Oct
150

93

35

-23

-80
10 June 24 June 08 July 22 July 5 Aug 19 Aug 2 Sep 16 Sep 30 Sep


Average Actual % Deviation

Southern Karnataka Weekly Rainfall from 01 June - 7 Oct
150

93

35

13% 68% 70% 127% 67% 101% 34% 132% 120% 93% 46% 69%

-19%
-23
-32%
-45%
-58% -58%
-72%
-80
10 June 24 June 08 July 22 July 5 Aug 19 Aug 2 Sep 16 Sep 30 Sep


...BUT IS THIS GONNA TAKE
ANOTHER 100 YEARS?
Why should we worry now?


ARCTIC ICE
SEP 2007
A Sorry Picture

HTTP://CLIMATE.NASA.GOV/CLIMATETIMEMACHINE/CLIMATETIMEMACHINE.CFM


GREENLAND ICE SHEET

LARSEN B ICE SHELF, 2002

HMM.... WHAT CAN I DO?

Home, as seen from Apollo 17, 1972

THE ACTION PLAN


8%
3%

25%

65%

THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION


8%
3%
30%

25%

3%
65%
67%

THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION

CONSERVE POWER

Replace

Replace


CONSERVE WATER


DO NOT WASTE FOOD!

HOW DO WE BE SURE THAT
WE CAN MAKE IT?
Heavy Odds!!


कम#$% वा(धकार+, म फ.ष0 कदाचना
कम#फ.4त0र भ0रमा , स8गो+;वकम<नी॥
Bhagvat Gita, Chatper 2 verse 47

Karmanye vadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachna
Karmaphalehtur bhurma te sangostvakarmani

You have the Right to your Action, but not the Fruit of your Action....


Do Not follow the crowd in doing
wrong.

- Exodus 23:2


IT IS A MORAL PROBLEM!


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