Heatwave claims over 120 lives in Karachi, Pakistan

The rising mercury and the menace of load shedding in the country, over 120 people have reportedly been perished in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan by Sunday night.

Most of the deaths have been attributed to the heat stroke exhaustion, remarked a duty doctor in one of the hospitals of Karachi.

However, an Edhi Foundation spokesperson said in the past 24 hours his foundation registered 150 dead at the Sohrab Goth Edhi morgue.

Saturday was the hottest day of this year’s summer in Karachi, where the mercury shot to 45 degrees Celsius - the highest temperature Karachi has ever experienced was 48 degrees Celsius on May 9, 1938.

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Global warming STALLED since 1998

The much hue and cry about the widening of the Ozone layer and the ever increasing global warming has started to show its results.

Now meteorologists have concluded that the Global warming has STALLED since 1998, negating earlier forecasts predicted a much steeper rise in global temperatures.

Although the global warming continues to increase, however its growth rate has somewhat stalled as compared to years before 1998. 

Officials say that by 2017, temperatures will not have risen significantly for nearly 20 years.
They concede that previous forecasts were inaccurate – and have come under fire for attempting to ‘bury bad news’ by publishing the revised data on Christmas Eve.

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100 million to persih by 2030 due to climatic changes, fear experts

According to a stunning report issued by thee humanitarian organization, DARA, climate change will kill an estimated 100 million people by 2030 and cost the global economy 3.2 percent of its potential output annually.

DARA is based in Spain and the report, published in New York on Wednesday, was commissioned by 20 governments.

Global average temperatures have been rising due to the "greenhouse" effect, where ozone harming gas emissions are being trapped within the Earth's atmosphere. The effects on the planet, such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising sea levels, will threaten populations and livelihoods, said the report.

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Currently, DARA estimates that about there are five million deaths a year. Roughly 4.5 million are "carbon economy deaths due mainly to air pollution.

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Britain facing 'Worst' drought since '76

Britain is suffering its worst drought for more than 30 years, with the likelihood of families facing hosepipe bans ‘ever increasing’.

Conditions are almost as bad as the drought of 1976, which saw rivers run dry, standpipes in the street and farmland ruined, the Environment Agency warned yesterday.

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman has called a crisis meeting next week for water companies, farmers and wildlife groups to plan how to keep the taps running.

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Giant plumes of methane bubbling to surface of Arctic Ocean worry Scientists

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Russian scientists have discovered hundreds of plumes of methane gas, some 1,000 meters in diameter, bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are concerned that as the Arctic Shelf recedes, the unprecedented levels of gas released could greatly accelerate global climate change.

Igor Semiletov of the Russian Academy of Sciences tells the UK's Independent that the plumes of methane, a gas 20 times as harmful as carbon dioxide, have shocked scientists who have been studying the region for decades.

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Canada first nation to pull out of Kyoto protocol

[ via Reuters ] 12 Dec

Canada on Monday became the first country to announce it would withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, dealing a symbolic blow to the already troubled global treaty.

Canada, a major energy producer which critics complain is becoming a climate renegade, has long complained Kyoto is unworkable precisely because it excludes so many significant emitters.

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New U.N. climate deal: Critics say Gains Modest

[ Yahoo News ] 12 Dec

While countries from around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, critics say the plan is too timid to slow global warming.

Kyoto's first phase - due to expire at the end of next year but now extended until 2017 - imposed limits only on developed countries, not emerging giants like China and India. The United States never ratified it.

Many small island states and developing nations at risk of being swamped by rising sea levels and extreme weather said the deal marked the lowest common denominator possible and lacked the ambition needed to ensure their survival.

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UN climate conference reaches deal

[ Sky News ] 11 Dec

The president of a United Nations conference has announced agreement on a program mapping out a new course by all countries to fight climate change over the coming decades.

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The European Union and India brokered a deal to push ahead with a roadmap for a new climate treaty.

The 194-party conference agreed to start negotiations on a new accord that would put all countries under the same legal regime to enforce their commitments to control greenhouse gases. It would take effect by 2020 at the latest.

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Climate-Treaty Talks Target U.S., China Emissions

[ npr ] 6 Dec

Awhile ago, Imposing Headlines shared a post about the Big Emitters.

Now the latest is that top delegates at the U.N. climate conference in Durban, South Africa, decide this week whether the Kyoto Protocol lives or dies. 

Tuesday morning, U.S. delegates have a one-on-one with China. The U.S. says it's open to discussing a future treaty but won't talk about anything legally binding until it knows what exactly would be in that agreement. China says it's open for talks but is vague beyond that.

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World climate change may threaten world's cocoa supply

Full Story:  The Week

Climate change globally has its many pluses and minuses. Deserts are being turned green while earlier green belts are being dried up. This is likely to threaten harvest areas of some of the most selling crop yields in the world, like the cocoa. A study by International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) reveals rising temperatures in the cocoa producing areas in West Africa will considerably reduce coca supply, threatening coffee and chocolate production world wide.

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