No doubt many environmentalists and scientists are making the general public aware of the threat we are facing through global warming. But when you actually go deep into the issue it is pretty scary and fast approaching ...Unless we all pool in , we may see cities being swallowed up one by one as the ice melts from the poles..
https://www.facebook.com/HuffPostAustralia/videos/1716982431856216/?fref=nf
Cooum river, Adayar river and Buckingham canal serve as the main rain water drain for Chennai. But they have been occupied by illegal encroachments.Drainage systems were not functioning. Creeks and culverts are blocked due to excessive dumping of garbage. Overall, Chennai deluge is Administrative failure.
It is reported today that the officials of a particular reservoir were asking for permission to bring level down by a few feet by opening the gates to make way for increased water flow due to impending heavy predicted rains. The matter lay on Chief Secretary's level and he neither gave permission nor seems to have asked for permission from Amma or it was refused or not taken. The truth will never come out. In Amma's rule only she decides either way. In Lok Sabha everytime an AIADMK member rises to give speech he first has to bring Amma's name somehow in the first 10 words!!! So let us not dilute the blame by blaming other minor reasons which are contributory and not the cause.
Now, we have reached a point of no return according to Scientific studies. Famed Climatologist, James Hansen says that a newly discovered feedback loop in Antarctica has the capacity to raise the mean sea levels by 10 feet by 2065. It is 10 times more than the rates as predicted for sea level rise earlier.
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/things-you-can-do-today/
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