Global Warming National Seminar

R.Annamalai, (second left) Director, Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu, handing over a sapling to a student of AJK College of Arts and Science in Coimbatore on Friday. S.R.Ramanan (third from left), Director, Area Cyclone Warning Centre, Regional Meterological Centre, Chennai, R.S.Lal Mohan (second from right), Trustee of AJK College, and Ajeet Kumar Lal Mohan ( left), Managing Trustee of the college are in the picture.

Two of the most practical solutions to global warming are prevention of deforestation and planting of trees, said R.Annamalai, Director of the Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu, said here recently. Inaugurating the national seminar on ‘Global Warming’ organised by the AJK College of Arts and Science, he said climate change was the result of rising levels of green house gases. Unless there was a global response to the problem, nothing could be done to reverse the process.

If the situation continued, the future generations would have to face disastrous consequences. Water would become a scarce commodity, biodiversity would disappear, rising sea levels would submerge coastal areas and increased salinity would affect agriculture. Though industrialised countries contributed more to the problem than developing nations, there was a need to build and sustain international co-operation on the problem of climate change, Mr.Annamalai observed.

The per capita energy consumption in India was much less compared to developed nations. At least 50 per cent of the county’s population still had no access to power. Fossil fuels would last only another 40 years and there was a need to identify alternative sources of energy. Global emissions needed to be stopped all over the world. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydroflourocarbons, perflourocarbons, and sulphur hexaflouride form green house gases. Increased emissions of these gases would result in the total destruction of the planet in another 400 years, he pointed out.

The Indian Government had taken initiatives in tackling the problem by increasing the proportion of solar energy, and forming the National Water Mission and National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture. The National Mission for a ‘Green India,’ yet another project of the Government, worked towards expanding the forest cover from 23 to 33 per cent. The only way to reduce the level of carbon dioxide was to plant trees. ‘Plant a tree to cool the globe,’ Mr.Annamalai said. S.R.Ramanan, Director, Area Cyclone Warning Centre, Regional Meterological Centre, Chennai, said the need to find alternative sources of energy was of primary concern. Energy security was one of the problems often neglected.

R.S.Lalmohan, Trustee of the college, said study of the environment, with special focus on global warming, would be introduced in the college. Such steps would enlighten the youth on the imminent danger of global warming. Ajeet Kumar Lalmohan, Managing Trustee of the college, said the college would live up to the need of the society in promoting eco-friendly concepts. At least one seminar would be conducted a month on issues related to the environment.

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