Global Warming

Anthropoids, close relatives of the human, can disappear completely from the face of the Earth, the largest expert on preservation of a biodiversity, Richard Leakey has declared in London at speech in the Royal geographical society. About it informs newspapers Guardian.

Leakey – the former chief of a protection service of the wild nature of Kenya, and nowadays – the head of organization Wildlife Direct.

On his data, monkeys are under threat because of a combination of hunting, illnesses and decrease of forests. As approves Leakey, attempts of struggle against global warming by use of bio-fuel, can worsen position of monkeys as cultivation of raw material for bio-fuel can lead to the further cutting down of forests in which there live monkeys.

About 80 percent of areas of dwelling of orangutans in Southeast Asia became unsuitable for a life of monkeys for last 20 years. The reason of it became need of the human for the new areas for landing palm trees which are used for making of the oil for the western market. The increase in need for alternative fuel can become the factor causing disappearance of 50 thousand of animals of this kind which has remained in the wild nature in the next decades.

Activity of the human is the reason of destruction of millions gorillas, a chimpanzees and bonobo monkeys (Pan paniscus) worldwide.

Leakey has called politicians to develop new international agreements under the control over emission of hotbed gases in which there was a place to struggle for preservation of forest in Southeast Asia, Africa, Central and South America.

His opinion, struggle with deforestation – i.e. decrease in the area of woods – is not less effective way of opposition to global warming, than transition to bio-fuel.

Destruction of woods – the reason of a quarter of the emissions of hotbed gases connected with the mankind. It is on the second place after increase of energy in the list of the reasons of pollution of an atmosphere.

By expert estimations, preservation of forests – one of the cheapest ways of the control of a climate. Leakey considers, that the countries of the world should help to the poorest tropical countries to keep in the territory untouched ” green lungs of the Earth “.

Except that, he has named oxymoron concept of ecotourism, having characterized it as attempt ” to make money “.

Global warming and the prompt thawing of the Himalaya glaciers caused by it create real threat of destruction of the Indian river Ganges which is a source of water for more than 500 million individuals . The given researches of ecologists published today confirm, that rates of thawing of the glaciers feeding a waterway idolized by Hindus, steadily accrue.

On the basis of the analysis of space photos experts of the research fund located in city Varanasi have established, that concerning glacier Gangotri , this parameter has increased for last 20 years almost twice. Thus, annually its huge the “tongue” which has stretched on tens of kilometers among high-mountainous ridges of the Himalayas in the north of India, is shortened approximately on 38 meters. It especially disturbs scientists what exactly from Gangotri originate myriads the streams forming springs of Ganges.
The same tendency is observed also with other glaciers which are being in this area. If trend will be kept, some of the glaciers will simply cease to exist by 2030.

As director of the fund Vir Bhadra Mishra considers, the Indian government should think seriously of that drying of Ganges is fraught not only catastrophic consequences for a national economy and a life of local population. ” Perhaps, this unique place on a planet where global warming can painfully strike on bases of religion which profess hundred millions people “, - he ascertains. The hung threat to an essence means, that the future generations of Hinduism followers risk in the future to lose the sacred river.

Scientists have made the sensational conclusions going on found at the bottom of fjords in British Columbia. The given results testify that the planet is threatened with a global cold snap. It will result by decrease in solar activity.

Researches of climatic changes today give new and new revolutionary results. After signing the Kyoto report in 1997 in this area it is carried out more researches, than for all the last years together taken. Discoveries do not depart from myths about global warming for a certain. So, scientists have deduced precise correlation between changes of brightness of the Sun and a climate of the Earth.

They predict, that by 2020 will begin the weakest on a quantity, for last two centuries ,of its activity solar « cycle Schwab » that can lead to a unusual cold snap on the Earth. So the world is threatened with not global warming, but a global cold snap,