New Delhi: Recording the effects of climate change in the glacier movement in the Indian Himalayan region, parliamentary panels have asked the government to take appropriate measures such as constant monitoring through early warning system settings and various adaptation steps to save lives and properties of disaster consequences of heating global in the future.
Fixed Committee on Water Resources suggests that the government must make efforts to regulate and expand the network of meteorological stations and high altitude release equipped with modern technology including the image of ‘synthetic radar aperture’ to detect waterbodies changes, including new lake formations, glaciers, glacial lakes and Das in the region.
Panel reports, submitting parliament earlier this month, assuming significance considering the recent reports of the UN government panel about climate change (IPCC) which projects how the snow-covered area and the volume of snow will decrease in the Himalayan region for 21.
Century due to increasing temperature The global average, which leads to extreme weather events and disruption in the water cycle.
“Increased temperature and rainfall can increase the flood of glacial lake (Glofs) explosion and landslides above Lake Moraine-Dammed,” IPCC said, in his report on August 9, predicts that the height of the snow will rise and the glacier mass will increase and glacier will increase and glacier Refusing, causing disaster events in the region.
The committee, led by BJP Lok Sabha MP Sanjay Jaiswal, noted that disasters such as flash floods and landslides “are expected to become more common in the future due to climate change”.
Monitor glacier movement to save lives: parl panel to the government
