Eco-Buddies

Global Warming is something I assume all of us to be aware of,being science students so without going into its definition we woud see what lead us to write about it on the blog.Global Warming is really a big problem we have to deal with nowadays, because it has the potential to change forever our lives and our planet's environment as we know them, and this would affect the whole mankind. There are huge social, political, and economic issues that will rise if we don't do something to stop the skyrocketing rise of the temperatures.
Green house gases can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth.Listing down just a few of them:

1. Spread of disease
Thanks to global warming,malaria has not been fuly eradicated.

2. Rise in ocean temperature,more hurricanes

3. More droughts and heat waves in Africa

4. Economic imbalances

5. Polar ice caps melting
-if all glaciers melted today the seas would rise about 230 feet!!! (avg man's height in the wrld is only 5feet sumthing)
-global ecosystem will be out of balance, making sea water less salty n screwing up the ocean currents which regulates the temperature
-several species of animals will be endangered. the most adaptive might just survive.
-ice caps act as reflectors,if they melt earth would be more warm, leading to no winters(tragic for fashion industry-no winter fall collections)

I'm sure the story uptill now must be clear to all and we hav realised that the villain is growing in power,so has the world. The Climate heros (including Mr Jairam Ramesh Minister for environment and forests, India) are trying to negotiate at the Copenhagen Climate Summit,we can build our own army in campus and contribute in our own little way to fight against Mr Villian.

All those MITSians who voluntueer to work for 'Save Earth' can sign up here as 'eco-buddies' and tell us your smart idea for the cause and also if YOU hav a slogan to shout it out.

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