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Global warming a global threat; needs all stakeholders’ say
By Technology Times at May 15, 2012 | 4:38 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Climate change has emerged as a global issue multiplying concern for the entire international community as the global warming is causing widespread problems such as faster glacier melting, sea level rise, shortage of fresh water, prolonged droughts, ravaging floods, more frequent and intense forest fires, high intensity storms, extreme heat episodes, more...
Collectivism can down global warming
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 12:06 pm | 0 Comment
By Naseem Sheikh IN PAKISTAN, annual mean surface temperature has a consistent rising trend since the beginning of 20th century. Rise in mean temperature of 0.6-1.0°C in arid coastal areas, arid mountains and hyper arid plains, 10-15 per cent decrease in both winter and summer rainfall in coastal belt and hyper arid plains, 18-32 per cent increase in rainfall in monsoon more...
Poor Pak nation dupe of global warming, air pollution
By Technology Times at March 17, 2012 | 12:12 pm | 0 Comment
By Naseem Sheikh SOOT FROM diesel exhausts and the burning of wood, agricultural waste and dung for heating and cooking causes an estimated two million premature deaths a year, particularly in the poorest countries. Scientists say that concerted action on these substances can reduce global temperatures by 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 and prevent millions of cases of more...
