Natural power's losing their Abilities

Seas Losing Ability To Absorb CO2

Do you all know that Earth's Environment itself saves it from the Environment Pollution? All natural things like rocks,seas,oceans etc. prevent our nature by their various different phenomenons. If the whole world plays their role in just balancing the Environment Balance that is balanced by nature itself, then we can think about prevention of Earth's Environment.

Emissions from the fossil fuels began soaring in the 1950s, and oceans largely kept up.

But the growth in the intake rate has slowed since the 1980s.

The Earth's oceans, which have absorbed carbon dioxide from emissions since the dawn of the industrial era, have recently grown less efficient at sopping it up, new research suggests.

Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels began soaring in the 1950s, and oceans largely kept up, scientists say. But the growth in the intake rate has slowed since the 1980s, and markedly so since 2ooo, the authors of a study write in a report in issue of nature. The research suggests that the seas cannot indefinitely be considered a reliable "carbon sink" as humans gases linked to global warming.

The slowdown in the rise of the absorption rate resulted from a gradual change in the oceans' chemistry, the study found . '' The more carbon dioxide the ocean absorbs,the more acidic it becomes and the less carbon dioxide it can absorb, " said the study's lead author, Samar Khatiwala, a research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth observatory of Columbia University and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Tecchnology.

" It's a small change in absolute terms, '' Khatiwala said. ''What I think is fairly clear and important in the long term is the trend toward lower values, which implies that more of the the emissions will remain in the atmosphere.''

To calculate the slow-down , Khatiwala created a mathematical model using measurements of seawater collected over the past 20 years. Even as human-generated eissions of carbon dioxide increase, the oceans' uptake rate growth appears to have dropped by 10 % from 2000 to 2007, he said.

The last major research effort to measure industrial carbon uptake in the oceans was published in a 2004 Science study led by christopher sabine. His methodology was different but arrived at similar conclusions.

Sabine used CO2 measurements taken by more than 100 ships to come up with a single figure: the oceans' total industrial carbon uptake until 1994. Khatiwala 's proach provides ocean carbon storage estimates from 1765 to 2008.

Thus, at last we all can say that nature itself plays a important role for protecting our Environment from Pollution.

Look at dangerous effects of global warming ?

Global Warming & Its Effect on Icy Habitats

When you visit a doctor, he records your temperature. And if it is higher than the normal body temperature of 98.6°F (degrees Fahrenheit) or 37°C (degrees Celsius) , it means that your are not well. Similarly, when the temperature of our planet increase, it means that our planet is ill too! The rise in your body temperature is called fever; when the same happens to the Earth's atmosphere and oceans it is called global warming.

Thermometer with Fahrenheit units on the outer scale and Celsius units on the inner scale



Every day , when the sun's rays reach earth , a group of gases called greenhouse gases absorb heat from the sun's rays & make our planet warm enough for us to survive.But if the levels of these gases in the atmosphere increases , they will absorb more heat , making Earth too hot for us to live ! Because of pollution , cutting down of trees & forests , burning fossil fuels like coal & petrol , the level of green house gases in the atmosphere is increasing , thus causing global warming.

Since 1880 the average temperature of our planet has risen by 1.4°F(0.8°C ). Though that doesn't sound like much , the results are alarming! The ice in polar regions has already started melting , resulting in floods , rising sea levels , submergence of low lying islands & coastal areas. Warmer temperature have also triggered climate changes & the extinction of animal & plant species.

Global warming is not having the same impact on all parts of the world. Some areas of our planet are warming faster than other. The polar regions are warming twice as fast as other parts of the world , thus making the wild life at the poles most vulnerable to rising temperatures. One such animal is the polar bear.

Polar bears depend completely on sea ice for hunting.But because of the rising temperatures , the sea is melting , thus making hunting extremely difficult for polar bears.Global warming has also resulted in a decline in the population of seals. Declining seal population means that polar bears are running out of food. it is a pity to see an animal so extraordinarily adapted to survive at below freezing temperature , perish because of the lack of the food.

TO Find Out What You Can Do To Help

* Using an air conditioner ( 2.5 ton ) for an hour generates 3 kg of CO2

If you decide to go without AC for an hour a day,

you can stop the release of 3 × 365 = 1095 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere per year.

* Using a geyser for an hour generates = 3.3 kg of CO2

If you cut down on your use of the geyser by just one hour a day,

you can stop the release of 3.3 × 365 = 1204.5 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere per year.

* One dripping tap in a house = wastage of 13 litres of water in a single day

Wastage in a year = 13 litres × 365 = 4745 litres of water

* On an average , each person who runs the tap while brushing

waste about 2 × 3.5 = 7 litres of water

If 1.13 billion Indians ( estimated population as on March 2008 )

simply change the way they brush their teeth , we could save

1.13 billion × 7 litres = 7.91 billion litres of water - in just a day!!

* The estimated population of India on March 2008 was 1.13 billion .

A single tree absorbs one ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) during its lifetime.

Even if each of us plant just one tree in our lifetime ,

we can eliminate 1.13 billion ton of CO2 from the atmosphere.

The Difference We All Can Make

* Simply switching off DVD player , stereo & computer when you are not using them will stop the release of thousand of pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

* Do you know , if the temperature of our Earth ,almost 7 million in India people will have to move their homes , because the sea will rise & cover some parts of Chennai & Mumbai ?

* Making cans from recycled aluminium uses 90% less energy than making cans from scratch. We can watch T.V. for 3 hours from the energy saved from recycling one can!

* Take shorter hot water showers. Heating water uses energy.

* The glacial lake in Southern Chile was sighted in March ,but two months laters it had completely disappeared!

The culprit : global warming

* It is true - the oceans are turning to acid! Ocean absorb CO2 which , when mixed with sea water , turns to a weak carbonic acid.

* Louisiana , a state in USA about size of Orissa ,is losing an acre of its land , to the rising sea levels , every 24 minutes!

* Between 1961 & 1997 , the world's glaciers lost 890 cubic miles of ice.

* Warmer temperatures are killing eucalyptus trees , the main food source for koalas. It is that because of this koalas could become extinct in the next few decades!

* Global warming means bad news for baseball lovers! Ash tree from which all baseball bats are made , is in the danger of disappearing because of warmer temperatures.

* As rising ocean temperatues are killing off their food supply , more number of gray whales are being washed up on beaches after starving to death.