‘Make environmental education compulsory’

 
The global mean temperature has been going up on alarming scale. The declining snow cover and increasing sea levels formed the topics of discussion at a function held here to observe the World Environment Day 2007. Which focused on polar regions. The programme was organized by the State Science&Technology Museum at Priyadarshini Auditorium on Tuesday. Inaugurating the programme Water Resources Minister N.K.Premachandran said that environment education should be made compulsory in the academic curriculum. He released the State of Environment Report 2007 at the function.

Rasik Ravindra, Director, National Centre for Antarctica and Ocean Research, Goa said referring Antartica that 11 of the last 12 years (1995-2006) ranked amongst the 12 warmest years in the instrumental record of surface temperature. In his keynote address on Global warming and sea level change An Antarctica perspective, he said that warming of the climate system was continuing unabated. Most of the observed increase in global temperatures since the mid 20th century can be traced to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The intergovernmental panel on climate  change 2007 has observed that world temperatures could rise by between 1.1 and 6.4 degree Celsius during the 21st centuary and sea levels will probably rise by 18 to 59cm.


(The New Indian Express, 6th  June  2007)