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Vast stretches of coastal India may just go under water if global warming goes unchecked. According to a report titled Blue Alert by Greenpeace, if present trends are any indication, there will be a five-degree increase in temperature over the next hundred years. This will submerge large areas and displace around fifty million people in India alone. A policy change, the report says, can still avert a two-degree rise in less than a decade. Now an attempt is being made to mobilise public support to force the government to take a firm stand on climate change. “In Chennai alone there will be ten million people who may be displaced. They’ll be like climate refugees. So we want them to understand this and exert pressure on the government,” said Natasha Chandy, Communications Coordinator. Many countries have signed the Kyoto protocol in order to bring down green house gas emissions to levels that existed before 1992. But global emissions have actually risen by 24 per cent mainly due to emissi...

The wound caused by the second degree burns last week on my calf and ankle is still burning....I feel the heat inside….the watch shows 8.25 a.m. its Friday 29, August 2008 I am back after my first shift.. Exactly @ this time the bus which picks me up every alternate Friday to Rochester Downtown is on the way from Xerox Building No.112. The watch with the thermostat shows 2 degree Celsius and the analog dial showing 8.28 am and 10:28:05 FR on the overlay . I could feel the chillness, with my calf muscles starting to cramp. [ It was all GREEN everywhere on Tuesday and suddenly it’s covered with snow. First time experience of snow fall .Believe me ne body would love it, what a wonderful experience. It wasn’t snowing now, but the heavy snowfall had laid a sheath of frozen ice which made it feel colder even…. I just stand on the pavement below the sign post…It was rather an early snow fall this year. This was the bad calendar year …Katrina, floods...

மனித இனம் தொலைந்து போகாமலிருக்க ஒரு தொலை நோக்கு பார்வை வேண்டும்.. அப்பார்வையின் விழிகளில் தொடங்கும் இந்த பயணம் தான் 'சென்னை 2060'[Chennai2060] இது ஒரு முடிவல்ல... ஒரு ஆரம்பம்..... H i t t i n g t h e L C D s . .s o o n . . As the twentieth century draws to a close, many scientists, business leaders, government officials, and citizen activists see handwriting on the global wall warning of impending ecological collapse. I have done my best to examine the validity of that view, working not as a scientist but as an investigative reporter, armed with an open mind, a restless curiosity, and the freedom to explore. I freely concede that the ambitious scope of my inquiry has made omissions inevitable. I could not examine every environmental hazard in the detail it deserves, anymore than I could visit every country I would have liked. Travel is like knowledge: the more you see, the more you know you haven''t seen. But I saw more of this planet''s peopl...