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 steps such as constant monitoring through early warning system settings and various adaptation steps to save lives and properties of disasters and nature -Sifat from disasters and traits of disaster consequences of global warming in the future.
Panels, fixed committees on water resources, suggest that the government must make a joint effort to regulate and expand the network of meteorological stations and high altitude disposal equipped with modern technology including the ‘synthetic image of the Radar Aperture (SAR) to automatically detect changes in water.
Body, including a new lake formation, glacier, glacial lake and river flow 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 interference in the water cycle.
“Increased temperatures and rainfall can increase the flood of glacial lake explosions (Glofs) 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 is likely to decrease.
, causing disaster events in the region.
India has, in fact, witnessed such tragedy on February 7 when avalanches in the Chamoli District of Uttarakhand caused flash floods, causing death of more than 100 people and damage to the power plants that lacked construction.
In the background of such a risk in the Himalayan region, the Parliamentary Committee, led by BJP Lok Sabha MP Sanjay Jaiswal, noted that disasters such as flash floods, glofs and landslides “are expected to be more common in the future due to climate change”.
“In general, glaciers have melted quickly and backwards produce the formation of a number of moraine-dammed glacial lakes, raises many threats especially for the population and infrastructure located nearby because of their explosion,” Panel said while suggesting various institutions to work in collaboration about glacial management .
In India, the glacier in the Hindu Kush Himalaya area is an important water supply for 86 million people living in this region.
Glaciers like in the area of ​​Lahaul-spiti in West Himalaya have lost the masses since the beginning of the 21st century, and if Greenhouse emissions (GHG) do not fall, the glacier in Hindu Kush Himalaya will decline two-thirds.
The IPCC report noted that human influence was very likely to be the main driver of the glickers ‘glickers’ retreat since the 1990s and almost all world glaciers, including the Himalayas, have retreated since 1950 in an unprecedented way.
Mountain and polar glaciers will continue to melt for decades or centuries.