Global warming or divine warning
S
CIENTISTS
FROM
ALL
over the world are repeatedly emphasizing
that global warming is the greatest danger of present times. Both
print and electronic media inform people daily of this perilous
situation.
Reports based on the findings of international scientists,
such as “Doomsday Not Far” (
Hindustan Times,
December 8,
2007) and an Indian TV programme, ‘Five Years to Doomsday’,
telecast on December 20, 2007, warned that climate change is
now turning into climate disaster. As a result, the day is fast
approaching when human beings, regardless of where they are
living, will no longer be able to inhabit the planet earth.
As we all know, there are huge ice caps at both the north
and south poles. These are vast reservoirs of cartinas fresh water,
but are now melting at an alarming rate. Also there are huge,
mountain-top glaciers, the gigantic storehouses of drinking water
— which, as a consequence of global warming, are likewise
rapidly melting and their stored water is draining off into the
oceans through the rivers.
This is going to result in two unbearable situations. On the
one hand, very soon the level of water in the seas will rise,
inundating/flooding coastal cities such as Calcutta, Bombay,
Chennai, etc. On the other hand, the non-coastal areas will suffer
from an intolerable water shortage. It is predicted by some
scholars that the shortage of water will become so acute that
even a third world war might take place over this issue.
The rivers are always full of water, because the ice in the
mountains keeps gradually melting the whole year round and
this water continuously comes to the rivers through tributaries.
But when all this ice get melted, naturally the rivers will run
dry. And all their fresh water will be mixed with the salty water
of the ocean. The ocean will be full of water but, being too salty,
it will be fit neither for irrigation nor for drinking. The situation
prevailing will be somewhat like that portrayed by Samuel
