Headline September 20, 2018/ '' 'EERIE MOTHER EARTH' ''

'' 'EERIE MOTHER EARTH' ''

A UN REPORT stated that sea levels have risen by 20 CM during the 20th century and could increase a further 20 to 80 cm by 2100.

As both the poles of the Earth are covered with ice - Arctic and Antarctic - melting glaciers can cause a cataclysmic rise in ocean levels, resulting in oceanic calamities.

The greenhouse effect has caused an increase in earth's surface temperature. This natural process keeps the planet warm by trapping heat in the atmosphere. Increase in carbon emission has caused the planet to be warmer than required.

A layer of greenhouse gasses primarily include water vapour, carbon dioxide and small amounts of methane and nitrous oxide. Carbon emissions are also a result of deforestation as plants absorb carbon dioxide.

Each year forest area, roughly the size of Panama  is lost. According to United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] deforestation is responsible for 20 percent of greenhouse gas emission..

Be that it may, for at the recent Climate Summit, optimism still managed to trump despair.

SAN FRANCISCO : OVER three days thousands of delegates from the private and public sectors showcased policies and innovations aimed at at reducing that flow of greenhouses gases.

Cities are converting to all electric vehicle fleets and setting deadlines for banishing gas guzzling cars from the roads, companies have vowed to operate only with renewable energy, including a few smokestack multinationals in the developing world.

''Clean and green is profitable.'' Mahendra Singhi, CEO of Dalmia Cement Ltd in India told AFP.

Investors managing fortunes said they were purging coal, oil and gas from their portfolios, young entrepreneurs showed off energy efficiency apps and inventions.

Provincial and state in tropical countries vowed to empower indigenous peoples who have been managing forests sustainably since before ''sustaible'' was even a word.

Zero Carbon future : But all these efforts may be in vain, the delegates warned, if national governments fail to do their part.

''Now its the time for all leaders to step up and take bold action,'' they said in an appeal framed as  a Call for Action.

''We call on the national governments of the world to step up ambition now....... and chart a clear path to your zero-carbon future.''

''We have enough critical mass in the private sector now to help spur that political process,'' said Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer goods companies.

The 196-nation Paris Agreement, inked in 2015. enjoins nations to cap global warming this century at ''well below'' two degree Celsius [3.6 degrees Fahrenheit ], and to strive for a ceiling of 1.5C if possible.

With only one degree Celsius of warming so far, Earth has been a crescendo of deadly heatwaves, droughts, floods and superstorms warn engorged by rising seas.

So Scientists persistently warn, that for world's warming, expect more and more intense hurricanes. 

GEORGIA TECH climate scientist Kim Cobb looks not just as basic physics but all the peer-reviewed studies that especially link climate change to wetter storms.

''We have sold data across decades of  rainfall records to nail the attribution - climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme rainfall events,'' Cobb said.

Several factors make scientists more confident in pointing the climate-change finger at Florence.

For every degree the air warms, it can hold nearly 4 percent more water [7 percent per degree Celsius] and offer measurably more energy to goose the storm, scientists said.

''The amount of water that comes out of hurricanes is certainly the most robust connection that we have,'' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientist Jim Kossin said.

And to look at Florence specifically, ''It's very likely that climate change has warmed the ocean such that hurricanes intense rainfall is more destructive than without global warming,'' said Weather Underground Meteorology Director Jeff Masters, a former hurricane hunter.

The warmer air and water also makes storms more intense or stronger, Stott said.

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