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by Dharmendra Kapri | 02-10-2014 19:06
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* There is nearly 1/3rd more CO2 in the atmosphere than there was 200 years ago. * 1998 was the hottest year since records began 150 years ago. * Temperatures may rise by up to 5.80 C in the next 100 years. * Sea levels could rise by 80cm in the next 100 years. * 25% of all CO2 emissions come from households. * 1 cow belches 500 litres of methane every day – yes, 500 litres! * Glacier National Park in Canada may have lost all its glaciers by 2030. * Siberian houses are beginning to sink as the frozen ground they were built on begins to thaw. * If just 1% of homes in the USA replaced their ?normal? light bulbs with low-energy ones, they would save: $800 million in electricity costs 2.5 billion kg of coal 8 billion kg CO2 emissions and enough energy to light 300,000 homes. * More than 1,000,000 tonnes of fossil fuels are burnt every hour around the world. * It takes 50 times more energy to make a battery than the battery will ever produce. * Every day the number of people in the world increases by 200,000. As many of you might know that i have been created a TEG forum (The Power of Young Crowd) to promote green lifestyle. Forum is dedicated to the protection and conservation of the Mother Nature Earth and Environment by adopting Green Eco friendly Lifestyle, Ideas, Tips, Living in day to day daily life. It is open to all Eco-generation Members and all members can be the part of this forum. Here you can share and discuss your Green Projects and Ideas. Forum Motto is to inform every Person about value of Green earth, Recycling, Reuse, Reduce and its advantage so that they can adopt same in their daily lifestyle and participate for the betterment of our green present and Future. Please do take a look :) Forum link- https://tunza.eco-generation.org/forumBoardList.jsp?forumListID=32
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Former E-gen Ambassador
Dharmendra Kapri
Previous : Green Virus in Action
4 Comments
Thank you for sharing, Dharmendra!
Posted 30-11-2014 13:09
All the best for TEG forum (The Power of Young Crowd).
Eco- facts are really horrifying.
Well reported Dharmendra.
Posted 08-10-2014 21:21
thank you Dharmendra for sharing such facts and also for leting us know about your forum. I just checked it out. You have well written about the green tips. :)
Posted 04-10-2014 11:31
Thanks for sharing horrific impacts of GHG emissions , global warming. Facts are already scary and are wake up alarm as well. Glad to know about your forum. Good job , Dharmendra.
Posted 03-10-2014 14:55