Copenhagen and Enchanting Forest Enveloping My Childhood.Kolkata facing brutal future in warmer world.Indian glaciers retreating.Hindu leaders in Britain have teamed up with Prince Philip and the UN to launch a long-term action plan that will engage with the community worldwide in the fight against climate change!
Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time -Two Hundred SIX
Palash Biswas
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Glacier reports and the Copenhegen Climate onference ignite inflames within me as we often see in Coal Mines in around Dhanbad and asansol, the Underground Fire. We wirtnessed the worst of SELF Destruction inflicting the Environment and Bio Cycle to earn American Life style. I remember my lost Childhood ENVELOPED into Dense Forest within the lap of Green Himalayas. I may smell even now the fragrance of Jungle and Wild beauty Abound.
I have seen the Green Himalayas and the terai belt. i have seen the Mercyless DEFORESTAION. Now we are seized by the Naked himalayas and the Melting galceiers are bound to flow within us!
In Prinep Ghat Local down train, we Commuters were engaged in intense debate on Indian Economy as the debate prolonged just beacuse of train timing resceduled and the train stops on TALA for almost fifteen minuts. Today the regular Card players were also absent and the Participants doubled with interested listeners and even the hawkers joining. One Card Player, who is a Caste Hindu RMS employee detached with disinvestment developments and RMS closure, suddenly introduced the debate applauding DR Manmohan Singh and UPA Government for buying IMF Gold. He opined India is Glittering and the Economy is RISILIENT. I could not help to oppose the coment saying,` my dear friend you see the Glittering Gold which we people may not buy and is used mostly to divert Black Money indigenously, but you do not see the Ethnic Cleansing, mass Exodus and persecution, death Processions, SELL OFF Psus, Jobloss, poverty and starvation, amn made calamities. The India Incs government sold our resources, land, home and livelihood and chose us to kill with surgical precision and you happen to be indulged in the ADVERTISED Magical Gold Buying Economy just because you have the Purchasing capacity and enjoy the freedom and sovereignity for an individual for the time being despite having been seized within Bleeding landscpae and human scape.
And the debate was launched.
December's Copenhagen climate conference will produce a "real" but probably not binding agreement, a US climate change negotiator said Thursday.
A leading climate scientist recently accused India’s environment ministry of “arrogance” over a government report claiming there was no evidence that climate change has caused “abnormal” shrinkage of glaciers in the Himalayas. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had warned that Himalayan glaciers were receding at an alarming rate. India on Monday challenged the internationally accepted view that the Himalayan glaciers were receding due to global warming. The glaciers, although shrinking in volume and constantly showing a retreating front, have not in any way exhibited ...For the first time, the Indian government has challenged western research that says global warming has hastened the melting of Himalayan glaciers.
Seven fishermen were killed and 17 fishing boats with some 100 men were still missing in the Arabian Sea as Cyclone Phyan left a trail of destruction in Maharashtra's Konkan region, officials said on Thursday.
Russia must reduce the role of the state in the economy and modernise its industrial base to survive, Dmitry Medvedev, the country's president, has said, apprently challlenging the policies of his predecessor, Vladimir Putin.Governement of India and the Ruling Manusmriti Apartheid hegemony has acomplished the task transfering Governance, Policy Making, Legislation and even law and order to Corporate hands. Political parties are CORPORATE now and Money Power abolished the role of State and state Power has been transformed ROBOTICALLY INHUMAN, ARMED with Nuclear, biological chemical armament, JUST A Tool of Mass Destruction destroying not only indigenous aboriginal production system, livelihood and Life but also destroying Nature, Climate and environment!
Hence, we criticise the Brahaminical Civil Society, Media,Intelligentsia and NGOs which jointly Kill the Constitution and Democracy to promote Free Market democracy. Only due this particular reason, we insist that every Social activist must be an Environment ACTIVIST first. The War, Civil War and Insurgency, Terror and Unprecedented Violence, Diintegration and Detsbliasaio mean to clear the decks of Monopolistic aggresion against the Indigenous Aboriginal people to Capture all Natural Resources to benefit the MINORITY Market dominating calss.
Dhaka, Manila, Jakarta and Kolkata are topping a new list of major Asian cities vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Kolkata is the fourth most vulnerable Asian city but number three among those least prepared to adapt.On the other hand, Most glaciers in the Indian Himalayas are retreating, but there is "no conclusive scientific evidence" to link this to global warming, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said here Monday.Meanwhile, Hindu leaders in Britain have teamed up with Prince Philip and the UN to launch a long-term action plan that will engage with the community worldwide in the fight against climate change, an Oxford University centre said.
Kolkata facing brutal future in warmer world!As Annual food inflation rises to 13.7%..Our friends in central Government Employment, trade Unions, political parties, academia, PSUs are not CONCERNED at all. We may not dare to expect any commitment from this BASTARDISED Ruling Class as the Masses are deprived of the basic Informations despite RTI.The masses know nothing about Resource management, Human Management , Balance of payment, fiscal and Moetary Policices and the Inflated economy with hyped recessiona s well as RISILIENCE Inflated!
Someone amongst our friends balmed the Population explosion! Family welfare is more than succesful in India and the Post Modern Metro , Urban , suburaban an even the Rural family set Up is no more Joint family within which we grew. It is nucleus family without any liability armed with Primium Cosumer Goods. But the development Projects have always meant Destruction, displacement and Exodus resultatnt in Ethnic Cleansing! Where from the Slumdogs, half of the population in URBAN and Semi Urban peripherry so previlleged come from? How the LPG Mafia has taken over the Governance? How do we face REALTY BOOM? Why do the FIIS take over the SENSEX Economy? Why do we get Foreign capital Inflow at the cost of the majority Masses? Why the only job available is only marketing?
Chian has more population than India but it runs with 16 percent growth rate? Most of the Masses consists of Peasants and unskilled labour. Provided they get job in their locality in their own language,the population transforms into human Resource, manpower.But Indian human Resource is not considered at all. Free Market democracy resolves the matter with genocide Culture leading to resistance, terrism, insurgency and unprecedented Violence.
India's annual food inflation, based on wholesale prices, moved up to 13.68% for the week ended Oct 31 from 13.39% for the week before, as per official data released Thursday.
The 52-week average prices of onions were higher by as much as 33.4% and potatoes became costlier by 27.9%, according to the limited data on wholesale price index released by the commerce ministry.
The statistics also showed average prices of vegetables were up 18.6%, pulses 16.83%, rice 15.95%, wheat 5.19%, fruits 7.05% and milk 7.99%.
This was the second week during which data on wholesale price index was issued as per the new guidelines approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, restricting the disclosure of index numbers to primary articles and fuels.
The full data will be available only on a monthly basis as opposed to the weekly release earlier, with Nov 14 set as the date on which the complete wholesale price index numbers will be released for the first time under these guidelines.
The Reserve Bank of India and the government have warned India's annual inflation rate based on wholesale price index for all commodities will rise to 6-6.5% by March, while the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council has pegged the rate at 6%.
Jonathan Pershing made the comments in Barcelona, Spain, where UN climate negotiators are trying to pave the way for a deal to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen Dec 7-18.
UN top climate change official Yvo de Boer said Wednesday he expected the United States to table concrete proposals in Copenhagen, but Pershing did not give details on eventual commitments.
The US Senate is in the process of considering a law proposal on emission cuts.
Hopes of a strong deal in Copenhagen have been waning in Barcelona, with African countries accusing advanced industrialised nations of not wanting to make clear commitments.
Pershing disagreed with African delegates who described the Barcelona talks as a waste of time and money.
The administration of US President Barack Obama was committed to fighting global warming, but it was also necessary to implicate other countries such as India and China, Pershing said.
According to Mega-Stress For Mega-Cities, a new report by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), many of these cities are highly exposed to threats such as storms and flooding while lacking the capacity to protect themselves at a time when their severity and frequency are rising due to global warming.
"Climate change is already shattering cities across developing Asia and will be even more brutal in the future," said Kim Carstensen, leader of the WWF Global Climate Initiative.
"These cities are vulnerable and need urgent help to adapt, in order to protect the lives of millions of citizens, a massive amount of assets, and their large contributions to the national GDP."
The WWF report covers 11 large cities across Asia, all located in coastal areas or river deltas. Following Dhaka (9 out of 10 possible vulnerability points), other cities at high risk are Manila and Jakarta (8 each), Kolkata and Phnom Penh (7 each), Ho Chi Minh City and Shanghai (6 each), Bangkok (5), and Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Singapore (4 each).
Releasing a discussion paper that puts together recent studies on glaciers by Indian scientists, Ramesh said: "The scientists may debate the causes, but the health of the glaciers is very poor and the level of debris has reached alarming proportions."
The paper says that while most of the 9,500-odd glaciers in the Indian Himalayas are retreating, some, like the Siachen Glacier, are advancing, while some, like the Gangotri glacier, have reduced their rate of retreat. Most of the glaciers in trouble are the small ones.
Ramesh said there was serious lack of data on the Himalayan glaciers -- only about 10 of them have been studied at all, and long-term temperature data is available only in Srinagar. The environment ministry is now sanctioning Rs.14-15 crore in the first phase of three studies -- Rs.3 crore for 15 new weather stations, Rs.7-8 crore to monitor the glaciers from satellites and Rs.4 crore for a study on the effects of soot on glacier melt.
Former Geological Survey of India official V.K. Raina, who put the discussion paper together, said that while glaciers were retreating, "we cannot say if it is abnormal, because we don't know what is normal". He hoped that with the new studies being started, the level of knowledge would improve in the next five-ten years.
While glaciers contribute only about ten percent of the water flow in south Asian rivers -- with the rest coming from rainfall -- they are vital in ensuring perennial water flow in these rivers. With 1.3 billion people dependent on them, the Himalayas have been called the water tower of Asia and sometimes the third pole.
The Bhumi Project was launched Friday after a three-way meeting between Hindu leaders, Prince Philip - the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II - and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as part of this week's environmental summit at Windsor Castle, attended by over 200 faith leaders from nine major world religions.
The meeting was called by the UN Development Programme and the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), a secular body founded by Prince Philip to help world religions develop their own environmental programmes.
Over the next nine years, the Bhumi Project will implement a series of initiatives to help Hindus engage in environmental action to better care for the planet, Oxford University's Centre for Hindu Studies said.
"Hindu tradition and history is replete with stories and references to 'bhumi', to mother earth, and we want to help Hindus re-learn these sacred teachings and find new relevance for them in the modern world," said Centre director Shaunaka Rishi Das, who helped formulate the project.
