CLIMATE CHANGE: THE NEED FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT IT

"Someone had rightly remarked that we not running short of energy; we

are running short of environment!  Situation is indeed such.  Even if

we were to hit upon a huge hydrocarbon reservoir such as of petroleum

or natural gas, or a huge coal deposit, it doesn’t solve our problem.

It will give us only energy.  The consumption of these resources will

harm the atmosphere beyond any repair.  So discovering just any source

of energy is not enough.  From a scenario where state of progress and

prosperity of a society was measured by the energy- consumption per

capita, we have reached a state where soon low energy consumption per

capita will be the index!"-

Dr CM  Nautiyal in SN Tripathi Memorial Lectures 2011

Climate Change & Global Warming is the buzz words that are heard quite

often these days but how many of us are aware of these concepts? To

many, these sound the domains of research or knowledge for scientists

or geologists only. The fact is that the issue of climate change

concerns each one of us whether it is those aspects that are natural

phenomenon and are beyond are control or it is the aspects that are

influenced by man made activities.

There is a need to translate the treasure of this scientific or

technical knowledge in a language that is understood by a layman and

it is then only people will be able to connect themselves with the

issue and will be able to prepare themselves for better coping

strategies to tackle the disasters caused by climate change. SN

Tripathi Memorial Lectures are an attempt in this direction and it is

a matter of pleasure for the organizers to put the resource material

of this year’s lectures on the website for any one to access. The

lectures were taken by the experts of national and international fame

in an interesting style with illustrations and examples