This is the
title of the news item in TOI dated June 28, 2017. What next?
The previously
assumed leader of climate change deal, US President withdraws from the Paris
Climate deal agreed, by over 200 nations, in December 2015. Now, the movement
is without any strong leader to spearhead the compliance of the agreement by
the nations.
As per the news
item, the annual rate of sea level rise increased to 3.3 mm in 2014 from 2.2 mm
in 1993. If it continues at the current rate it will rise to 33 mm in a century!
Low lying coasts around the world will be under water.
In-spite of the
melting of ice on land and the huge icebergs (floating mass of ice detached
from a glacier and carried out to sea) in large quantities, the levels have
arisen significantly for the simple reason that the volume created by the melting
of ice is more than the volume of the water resulted from the melting of the
ice. The space can easily accommodate the water without causing any rise in the
sea level.
However, it is
necessary that a popular and powerful leader should take up the responsibility
to carry on this all important climate agreement so that the rise is contained
to avoid flooding of sensitive
industrial and nuclear installations which are located on the sea shores.
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