Wake up to the Reality
Did you know ?
- I degree Celsius = 33.8 degree Fahrenheit
- Records from land stations and ships, show that the global mean surface temperature has warmed between 1 degree F and 1.7 degree F since 1850
- From the 1970's the average surface temperature has warmed up by 1 degree
- At the present rate , earth's surface is warming up at the rate of 3.2 degree F per century
- The top ten warmest years have all been after 1990.
- The global average temperature, it is predicted , will rise between 34.52 degree F and 42.44 degree F by 2100
- Average temperature in the arctic have increased at almost twice the global rate in the past 100 years
- Hooter days over land and less cold days and frost
- At the current rate of glacier retreat in the Himalayas, scientists predict the loss of all central and eastern Himalayan glaciers by 2035
- More floods, heat waves and insect borne diseases in the near future
- Overall, the Himalayan region has warmed by about 1.8 degree F since the 1970's
Aparana Chauhan
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