What percentage of us are sweating Greenland's icy cold? Answer: 3%!

- Eyesight-Hershal Pushkarna

- The first hailstorm hit Greenland on August 14-16, 2021, a sign of nature's pistol falling on the entire human race.

- There is no need to assume that the new weather in Greenland will not have any effect here after a thousand kilometers.

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Do we have a direct link to the natural phenomenon of torrential rains that fell for three days in a row on the world's largest island, Greenland, about 2,500 kilometers northwest of India? At first glance, nothing seems to matter. But if you ask a meteorologist the above question, he will immediately say yes! There is a connection. The invisible thread of the phenomenon of weather occurring in any corner of the earth is connected with the inhabitants of each country. In other words, we are all involved in that event in one way or another. According to this, in the heavy rains that fell in Greenland during August 15-16, 2021, our contribution is like flower, if not flower pollen. Millions of butterflies fluttering their wings together in Britain may sound like a whirlwind in Osren Leah, but believe me, there's breath in it — and breath in science. Meteorologists call that science the butterfly effect. A brief background to what happened in Greenland and what happened there on August 15-16:

Greenland is an icy island in the northern hemisphere with an area of ​​21,6,000 square kilometers. About 70% of this vast area is covered with snow carpets for many months. The word 'carpet' should not be taken lightly here, as its thickness ranges from 2,500 to 3,600 feet. Measure the total amount of ice on Greenland's land, not less than 2.5 million cubic kilometers. Let's not just figure out the quantity statistically, so let's put things differently. Suppose tomorrow all of Greenland's ice melts, and the immense amount of water released by it increases the world's average sea level by 3 feet. Thousands of coastal cities and towns in hundreds of countries are flooded. Mumbai, the economic capital of our country, is no exception.

This is not going to happen overnight, but it has started in a slow dimension. During the 100 years of the twentieth century, 6,000 billion tons of ice have melted off the surface of Greenland, raising sea levels by 4.5 centimeters. Due to global warming, Greenland 1 is still sweating, so constantly breaking and melting ice is raising the surface of the world's oceans. According to a scientific survey, Greenlando lost about 50 gigatonnes of ice between 2005 and 2016. (1 gigaton = 1 plus 12 zeros, that's a kilogram.) Again, if we simplify the octopus figure, 1 gigaton of ice water would be too much to fill the 600,000 swimming pools of the Olympics.

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Let us now know what happened in Greenland during August 15-16, 2021. Temperatures are always extremely cold in the island's 10,500-foot-high icy region, with snow falling on most days of the year. But after the 15th of August, the situation changed. A faint stream of hot air from the south came suddenly and brought heat to the atmosphere. The temperature rose 15 degrees Celsius above normal. As a result, it began to rain heavily in the area where it always snowed. During the three-day thunderstorm, 3 billion tons of water fell from the sky onto Greenland's icy carpet. The temperature of liquid water is naturally higher than that of solid ice, so a little warm rainwater began to melt the ice. In three days, four and a half times as much snow as Gujarat was eroded. Needless to say, billions of liters of water have finally been dumped into the ocean? Meteorologists say this was the first such incident in Greenland's history, but probably not the last. Don't be surprised if the weather, which has changed due to global warming, repeats itself in the future.

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Understood all this, but the ice of Greenland (as well as the polar regions) melts and we have nothing to do with it. Of course, true! The average citizen of the country drives a vehicle, travels in a train-plane-bus, uses electrical appliances in the coal-fired power sector and uses factory-made products to create carbon dioxide in the atmosphere directly or indirectly.

The text on which you are reading has mixed carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as a byproduct of the electricity used in the manufacture of the paper, in the printing of ink, and in the operation of the printing offset machine. So count some of it on your own! Such an account is called a person's carbon footprint in environmental terms.

India pollutes the Earth's atmosphere with 7.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year. Divide it by the country's population, the average Indian is responsible for about two tonnes of carbon dioxide pollution annually. Here is its carbon footprint.

The per capita annual 'production' of carbon dioxide should be limited to 0.5 tonnes so that the problem of global warming, which raises the average global temperature, is not exacerbated and the Earth's temperature does not change drastically. But by crossing that goal line, we have gone nowhere. On the contrary, the carbon footprint of the average Indian is steadily rising due to the rapid pace of the Industrial Revolution in the country.

See what the end result is. Each molecule of carbon dioxide contains 1 atom of carbon, while 3 atoms of oxygen. The sun's intense rays penetrate the structure and reach the ground, and with the rays the heat also passes through instinctively. But it is not possible for that heat to go back into space, as the reflected heat rays are infrared. Less penetrating than ultraviolet rays. Carbon dioxide molecules block it, so one-way traffic of heat runs. The atmosphere is constantly overflowing with heat. The result? Rise in temperature!

Is. During the 120's, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere was about 20 parts per million. Two hundred years after the Industrial Revolution broke out in England, in the 180's, the proportion increased from one million to 212, another fifty years later, in 2000, the figure rose to 90, and today (in 2021) the figure has risen to 216. If industrial fumes continue to burn and fossil fuels such as coal and diesel continue to burn, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is likely to rise to 20 percent by 2020.

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Let's move the focus back to Greenland. Let's talk about our contribution to the sudden change in the atmosphere during August 15-16, 2021. As mentioned above, the average Indian contributes about two and a half tons of carbon dioxide to the Earth's climate every year. If you talk about the whole nation instead of the individual, then something like this will happen:

The current problem of glow ball warming has been around for almost 200 years. Is. The industrial revolution that started after 1900 has led to the closure of factories in western countries. On a two-year average, the Europe-US pollution of tons of carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide has contributed fifty percent to global warming. China's contribution, which has been on the fast-forward track of progress (and therefore pollution) for barely four decades, is 9 per cent. Speaking of India, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, while presenting a statistical report at a conference on June 15, 2021, said that our contribution to global warming is not more than 5 per cent.

The reason the figure is negligible is obvious. Is. When the Industrial Revolution started in 1900, our country was in slavery from 9th to 19th century. Giant industrial units like Europe-America were not established here during that time. On the contrary, the opportunity for industrial revolution for India came in the wake of post-150 liberal economic policy. Today, millions of factories in the country emit 2.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, though the weighty figure is lighter than China's 10.5 billion tonnes and the US's 5.1 billion tonnes.

Whatever it is, we have a modest share of 5% in the problem of global warming. Given the industrial progress that has been taking place in the country for a decade and a half, consider that share to be increasing. Is there a way to reduce our personal carbon footprints in these circumstances? Fortunately.

■ A neem tree absorbs about 3 kilograms of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year and converts it into biomass. Therefore, every Indian should plant at least 20 trees every year to absorb the two and a half tons of carbon dioxide that is released annually.

■ One square meter of solar panel bar emits 150 kilograms of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every month. At the end of the year, if the Indians have a full debt of two thousand kilograms, then they should install a solar panel of 18.5 square meters.

At least that's what we do on an individual basis. Otherwise, it is not necessary to assume that the new weather in Greenland will not have any effect at the end of a thousand kilometers here. The train of melting ice water in Greenland is about to reach us late. It is the return gift of polluting the atmosphere — and another name for it is the Butterfly Effect! The side effects of global warming never cross geographical boundaries