‘Climate change threatens to disturb ocean currents’

The New Indian Express , Thursday, June 15, 2006
Correspondent : Staff Reporter
BANGALORE: "Melting of the Arctic Greenland ice sheets over the past 40 years has added more than 20,000 cubic kilometres of fresh water to the Northern Ocean. The resulting changes are threatening to disturb ocean currents," said president of World Environment Foundation Madhav Mehra.

He was speaking on the topic "Eco Innovate to Combat Change in Climate" organised by the Institute of Directors in association with Bangalore Management Association and National Institute of Personnel Management on Wednesday.

Mehra said scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory revealed this alarming fact.

According to him, if these changes threaten to disturb ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream that transfer heat from the tropics towards the Polar regions, then winter temperatures in Europe would fall by several degrees.

Mehra, also the president of the Institute of Directors said climate change could be halted not at cost but profit. "Investments in improving energy efficiency add on renewals can offer rich dividends to companies," he added.

Mehra opined that solar cells have started becoming competitive for household electricity generation in villages unconnected by electric grids. "Wind electricity generation promises to become the foundation of a new eco-economy," he added.

The foundation has proposed an eleven-point plan to combat climate change and regenerate environment. It includes increase the productivity of natural resources, opting for minimalist lifestyles, adoption of zero waste and closed loop systems, turn to renewable and invest in green issues.

 
SOURCE : The New Indian Express, Thursday, June 15, 2006
 


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