The temperature increase has serious consequences for the Indian sub-continent. Water is expected to become scarce, forests to decline and agriculture output to fall. All models forecast an increase in rainfall over the century, but no one can predict how this increase will happen. What would happen if the increase is over the sea, concomitant with a decrease over land? Models also predict increase in rainfall to happen in intense bursts and not spread over a long period. All this would point to a water scarcity over the sub-continent, although the precise amount will depend on how the rainfall is distributed over the country.
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Global Warming - India
The Economic Times: Grim global warming outlook for India post 2030: IISc's research
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Add one more really scary fact about water and you have all the ingredients you'll ever need for WAR. The Himalayan glaciers are all melting and they are the sources for all of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China's water and major rivers like the Yellow and the Genghis. Once they dry up 3 billion people will start to fight over every last drop of water and I mean fight with everything they have and most of these countries have nukes already.
Only a few people seem to have wrapped their minds around what the implications of global warming point to. Hey we have billions of tons of oil and coal that are just itching to get burned up, and since that equals gobs and gobs of money, nothing is going to stop it from happening.
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