Climate Change A Great Challenge – ISRO Chief A S Kiran Kumar

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief A S Kiran Kumar on Saturday sounded an alert on huge impending impact on the nation’s economy and environment due to increasing climate change in the eastern Himalayas. The North-eastern region is prone to natural disasters like flood, landslide, thunderstorm, drought and forest fire.

“Climatic change is no longer a scientific curiosity but a great challenge facing us as an environmental issue impacting economy, livelihood, health safety, agriculture, food production and many other dimensions,” Kumar said at the second convocation of Assam Kaziranga University here.

ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar

ISRO chief concerned over climate challenges:

“Climate change is amongst the most concerning issues being discussed across the world. Shifting weather patterns, threat to food production through increased unpredictability of precipitation, rising sea levels contaminating coastal freshwater reserves, increasing risk of catastrophic flooding, and a warming atmosphere aids the pole-ward spread of pests and diseases once limited to the tropics,” he added.

In order to improve weather forecast services, including flood forecast and thunderstorms, ISRO’s North Eastern Space Application Centre at Shillong has developed innovative techniques under its Flood Early Warning System project involving the regional climate modelling centre, Guwahati.

The scope of this project has been extended to flood-prone areas in the North-eastern states and it has proved very helpful in managing floods in Assam.

NASA Study: Climate Change Driving Dramatic Rise In Sea Levels Than Expected

Sea levels will rise drastically and change the climate says the NASA study. It says that the seas level rise twice as high by 2100 as estimated by NASA.

NASA Study: Climate Change Driving Dramatic Rise In Sea Levels Than Expected

The rise in sea level may increase up to 65 cm in coming 80 years; this may cause serious problems to the people and climate near the coastal regions according to the detailed journal Proceedings of National Academy of Science.

“This is almost certainly a conservative estimate,” said Steve Nerem, Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He is the one who led the team of NASA Sea Level Change which has conducted this study regarding the rise in sea level.

“Our extrapolation assumes that sea level continues to change in the future as it has over the last 25 years. Given the large changes we are seeing in the ice sheets today, that is not likely,” Nerem said in a statement.

“First, warmer water expands, and this “thermal expansion” of the ocean has contributed about half of the seven centimetres of global mean sea level rise that has been observed over the past 25 years,” Nerem said.

Secondly the water from melting ice flows into the ocean and increase the sea level around the world, this is the situation that will lead to the rise in sea level.

“The rate of sea level rise has risen from about 2.5 millimeters per year in the 1990s to about 3.4 millimeters per year today,” the researchers said.

The speed of the acceleration will be changed by geological events such as volcanic eruptions or climate patterns etc.

NASA 993 Million Mission To Study Red Planet Mars Launches Today

NASA’s much-awaited launch of its latest Mars lander to study Mars will launch today i.e; Saturday.InSight, designed to perch on the surface of the Red Planet and listen for “Marsquakes.” The spacecraft was scheduled to blast off atop an Atlas V rocket at 4:05 am Pacific time (1105 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

NASA 993 Million Mission To Study Red Planet Mars Launches Today

NASA safety officers said Friday the usual visibility constraints might be waived so the launch could proceed. However, Foggy weather was the only technical concern ahead of the launch, and

The $993 million project aims to expand human knowledge of conditions on Mars, inform efforts to send human explorers there, and reveal how rocky planets like the Earth formed billions of years ago. If all goes as planned, the lander should settle on the Red Planet on 26th November 2018.

Its name, InSight, is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.

NASA chief scientist Jim Green said experts already know that Mars has quakes, avalanches and meteor strikes. “But how quake-prone is Mars? That is fundamental information that we need to know as humans that explore Mars,” Green said.

Understanding the temperature on Mars is crucial to NASA’s efforts to send people there by the 2030’s, and how much a human habitat might need to be heated under frigid conditions, said Green.

Daytime summer temperatures near the Martian equator may reach 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees C), but then plunge by night to -100 F (-73 C). “It is an important part of knowledge of how this planet is evolving,” Green said. “We have to be able as humans living and working on Mars to survive that.”

The solar and battery-powered lander is designed to operate for 26 Earth months, or one year on Mars, a period in which it is expected to pick up as many as 100 quakes.

“Hopefully it will last a lot longer than that,” said Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The spacecraft was initially supposed to launch in 2016 but had to be delayed after temperature tests showed a problem with part of the seismometer, which engineers have since fixed.

InSight aims to be the first NASA spacecraft to land on Mars since the Curiosity rover in 2012.

“There is nothing routine about going to Mars, especially landing on Mars,” said Stu Spath, InSight program manager at Lockheed Martin Space.

Dhadak Trailer Hits 20 Million Views on YouTube in Less Than A Day.

Recently dropped trailer of the upcoming film Dhadak, which is debut movie of Sridevi and Boney Kapoor’s elder daughter Janhvi along with Shahid Kapoor’s younger brother, Ishaan Khatter in the lead role. The trailer has already started to make a lot of buzzes as Dhadak trailer hits 20 million views on YouTube in less than a day.

 

 

Karan Johar took it to Twitter to express his happiness over the love fans has shown to the trailer of the upcoming movie and wrote, 20 MILLION HEARTBEATS for #Dhadak !!!! #Janhvi #Ishaan.

 

With a video of both Jhanvi and Ishaan’s reactions checking the reaction of fans over the trailer of the film.

 

In launch event of the trailer, Jhanvi said: “I miss her today”.

 

The film is directed by Shashank Khaitan of ‘Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania’ and ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’. “Dhadak” is based on a Marathi film Sairat and is set to be released on the big screen on July 20th.

 

 

During the launch event of the trailer, Jhanvi said, “I saw ‘Sairat’ with mom at home, and I remember telling her ‘I wish that this was my first film and I could do something like it’. Me and mom had this big discussion on how she wanted a role like this for me, and then you (Karan) called, and it happened,”

 

After which In a tweet, Arjun Kapoor said,

Tomorrow you will be part of the audience forever #JanhviKapoor cause your trailer comes out… Firstly, sorry I’m not there in Mumbai, but I’m by your side, don’t worry.

I just wanted you to know this profession is fantastic if you work hard, be honest, learn to take the accolades with the brickbats, respect opinions, yet follow your path & instinct. It’s not going to be easy, but I know you are ready for all the madness that will ensue.

All the best for #Dhadak! I’m certain that my friends @ShashankKhaitan & @karanjohar have presented you & #IshaanKhatter as the modern Romeo & Juliet with elan !!! 3/3.

 

 

We wish Jhanvi all the best for her debut upcoming film and everyone on the team.
The movie is set to be released on 20th July, and we can not wait to watch it.

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