A Thought for Today-681: Joseph Addison

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief - Joseph Addison 

Facts and Figures-83: 25 Alarming Global Warming Statistics

25 Alarming Global Warming Statistics

Posted by Josef, Updated on March 25, 2014

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Global warming is among the most alarming environmental issues that the world faces today. This phenomenon does not simply involve the significant rise in the earth’s temperature but a lot more. The adverse effects of global warming have become more and more apparent since the dawn of the 20th century, with more hurricanes and tropical storms causing massive destruction in different areas around the world, more animal species losing their habitats and becoming extinct, and more people dying because of too much heat. Here are 25 alarming global warming statistics.

25

By the end of the century, around 150,000 people will have died of heat related causes.

24

In the last three decades, the United States has had an average of 80% consumption of fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil; all of which contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases.

23

Each year of the 21st century ranks amongst 14 hottest years since 1880.

22

According to studies, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by as much as 34% since the 1700 industrial revolution.

21

Scientists believe that by the end of the century, the temperature of the earth will become much higher than its temperature now. By 2100, the average global temperature will be around 5.8 degrees hotter if humans continue their current CO2 output.

20

Humans are the major contributors of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Based on studies, human activities are responsible for about 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide every year.

19

The 20th century marks the highest carbon dioxide levels in the history of the planet. Studies show that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today is higher than it was 650,000 years ago.

18

Global warming is a result of excessive amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere. Based on studies, the rate at which humans dump carbon dioxide into the environment is 1000 tons per second.

17

Global warming does not simply cause a significant increase in the temperature of the earth but also leads to the destruction of habitats and ecosystems. This explains why over a million species have already become extinct.

16

According to scientists, if global warming persists, around 100 million around the world will live with three feet of sea level rise. This threat especially applies to people living in coastal cities.

15

Of the 150 glaciers featured in the Montana Glacier National Park in 1910, only 25 were able to survive. This is just one of the few glacier parks in the world that suffers because of the continued increase in the earth’s near-surface temperature.

14

A report from the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment that was compiled from 2000 to 2004 revealed that the average temperature in Russia, Western Canada and Alaska have all increased by twice the global average.

13

A report from the IPCC in 2007 revealed that by the time we reach the end of this century, sea levels would have already risen by 7 to 23 inches because of global warming.

12

It is ironic that despite the United States only making up 5% of the total population of the world, it has been ranked no. 1 among giant countries considered to be global warming polluters. The US contributes 25% of total emissions.

11

Humans are not the only ones who suffer from global warming. Even plant and animal species do. It is projected that by the time we reach 2050, around 15 to 37% of all the existing plant and animal species today would cease to exist.

10

Because of the continued increase of the near-surface temperature of the earth, polar glaciers have also continued to melt, causing a significant rise in our sea level. Over the past 100 years, the sea level is said to have increased by 10 to 20 centimeters.

9

A study conducted by the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment revealed that since ancient times, there have been around 400,000 square miles of the Arctic Sea that have already melted because of the increasing temperature of the earth. This area is around half the state of Texas.

8

According to studies, the snow cover and ice extent in the world today have considerably decreased over the past decades because of global warming. If this phenomenon continues, there will be no glaciers left in the Glacier National Park sixteen years from now.

7

Figures from the National Climactic Data Centre show that in 2005, around $100 billion worth of properties were damaged by hurricanes in the United States because of global warming. These hurricanes and other tropical storms are due to the increase of carbon dioxide emissions that cause the temperature of the earth to heat up.

6

The atmospheric carbon dioxide level of the earth today has significantly increased since the 18th century. The amount of carbon dioxide in 1800 was 31% less than the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today, which means that it has increased from 280 parts per million to 367 per million. According to scientists, this level could be as high as 970 parts per million nine decades from now.

5

Based on a study conducted by MIT, there has been a 100% increase in both the duration and intensity of natural calamities occurring on earth since the 1970’s, particularly tropical storms and hurricanes. This is also said to be a result of the increased amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere.

4

The increase in the temperature of the world has significantly increased over the past three decades, and the increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is said to be one of the contributing factors. The temperature of the world now increases at a rate of three times faster than the rate 100 years ago.

3

Based on the records of NASA, the annual temperature of the United States and the world today is now around 1.0 F degrees warmer compared to the annual temperature recorded in 1900. This is a pretty significant increase.

2

On the list of the 25 hottest years in the history of the Earth according to NASA, the last nine years are all included. This means that compared to the temperature of the world before, the world today is much hotter.

1

According to statistics, we have had twice in the last decade the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the history of the planet. The hottest temperature on record used to be in 1998, but the record was broken in 2005. Scientists believe it was not mere coincidence but a result of global warming.

Excerpts from Josef’s List25.com.

Grateful thanks to Josef and List25.com

Reference: http://list25.com/25-alarming-global-warming-statistics/

Eyecatchers-184: Ikigai

Ikigai

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ikigai (生き甲斐, pronounced [ikiɡai]) is a Japanese concept that means "a reason for being." It is similar to the French phrase Raison d'être. Everyone, according to Japanese culture, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self. Such a search is important to the cultural belief that discovering one's ikigai brings satisfaction and meaning to life. [Examples include work, hobbies and raising children.

The term ikigai compounds two Japanese words: iki (wikt:生き) meaning "life; alive" and kai (甲斐) "(an) effect; (a) result; (a) fruit; (a) worth; (a) use; (a) benefit; (no, little) avail" (sequentially voiced as gai) "a reason for living [being alive]; a meaning for [to] life; what [something that] makes life worth living; a raison d'etre".

In the culture of Okinawa, ikigai is thought of as "a reason to get up in the morning"; that is, a reason to enjoy life. In a TED Talk, Dan Buettner suggested ikigai as one of the reasons people in the area had such long lives.

The word ikigai is usually used to indicate the source of value in one's life or the things that make one's life worthwhile. Secondly, the word is used to refer to mental and spiritual circumstances under which individuals feel that their lives are valuable. It's not necessarily linked to one's economic status or the present state of society. Even if a person feels that the present is dark, but they have a goal in mind, they may feel ikigai. Behaviours that make us feel ikigai are not actions we are forced to take—these are natural and spontaneous actions.

In the article named Ikigai — jibun no kanosei, kaikasaseru katei ("Ikigai: the process of allowing the self's possibilities to blossom") Kobayashi Tsukasa says that "people can feel real ikigai only when, on the basis of personal maturity, the satisfaction of various desires, love and happiness, encounters with others, and a sense of the value of life, they proceed toward self-realization."

Grateful thanks to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

India Watch-20: New Orleans and Mumbai

How is that?

   inches of rain in new orleans due to hurricane katrina... 18

    inches of rain in mumbai (July 27^th(year not known).... 37.1

    population of new orleans... 484,674

    population of mumbai....  12,622,500

    deaths in new orleans within 48 hours of katrina...100

    deaths in mumbai within 48hours of rain..  37.

    number of people to be evacuated in new orleans... entire   city..wohh

    number of people evacuated in mumbai...10,000

    Cases of shooting and violence in new orleans...Countless

    Cases of shooting and violence in mumbai.. NONE

    Time taken for US army to reach new orleans... 48hours

    Time taken for Indian army and navy to reach mumbai...12hours

    status 48hours later...new orleans is still waiting for relief, army and electricty

    status 48hours later..mumbai is back on its feet and is business is as usual

    USA...world's most developed nation

    India...JUST A DEVELOPING NATION... 

Source:  Unknown (Anyway many thanks to whoever it is)

Self-Improvement-152: Take time to laugh...

Take time to laugh

It is the music of soul.

Take time to think

It is the source of power.

Take time to play

It is the source of perpetual youth.

Take time to read

It is the fountain of wisdom.

Take time to pray

It is the greatest power on earth.

Take time to love and be loved

It is a God-given privilege.

Take time to give

It is too short a day to be selfish.

Take time to work

It is the price of success.

ANONYMOUS

A Thought for Today-680: Thomas Carlyle

It is great, and there is no other greatness – to make one nook of God’s Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God, to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier – more blessed – Thomas Carlyle

Facts and Figures-82: Largest Postal Network in the World

India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011.

Courtesy: trendingpost

Many thanks to Trending Post

Self-Improvement-151: HOW TO REDUCE STRESS

Dance it out.
Go for a Walk.
Talk about it.
Breathe.
Go to bed earlier.
Focus on what you can control.
Reminisce about good times
Ask for a hug.
Look for opportunities.
In life's opportunities, smile.

Many thanks to Healthdigezt.com.

A Thought for Today-679: Thomas Carlyle

It is great, and there is no other greatness – to make one nook of God’s Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God, to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier – more blessed – Thomas Carlyle

Self-Improvement-150: EIGHT WAYS TO CONSTANTLY IMPROVING

EIGHT WAYS TO CONSTANTLY IMPROVING

1.      Read Books

2.      Lisen to Podcasts

3.      Take a course

4.      Practice Old Passions

5.      Get Feedback and Critique

6.      Be open to change

7.      Get around community (You become like the peole you spend the most time with)

8.      Work towards a goal

Excerpt from  Seanwes.com/150

Grateful thanks to Seanwes.com

Facts and Figures-81: Transfer of confirmed rail ticket

This is regarding transfer of confirmed rail ticket. Very good initiative by our Railway Minister Sri Suresh Prabhu.

1. A confirmed railway ticket can be transferred to your blood relations.

2. If a person is holding a confirmed ticket and is unable to travel, then the ticket can be transferred to his / her family members including father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, husband or wife.

3. For transfer of ticket, an application must be submitted atleast 24 hours in advance of the scheduled departure of the train to chief reservation supervisor with ID proof.

4. Government officials can transfer to other govt official.

5. Students can transfer ticket to other students.

Share this. It may help someone.

For Details access / visit to: -

http:/www.indianrail.gov.in/change_Name.html

A Thought for Today-678: Paulo Coelho

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion - Paulo Coelho

Facts and Figures-80: Galileo and His contribution to Modern Science

Galileo Galilei is The Father of Modern Astronomy. His contribution to observational astronomy was immense.  He was one of the greatest scientists of all time, notable for his use of the scientific method in finding out how the universe works.  He was born in Pisa, Italy, on February 15th 1564, the son of a musician. He was a promising, intelligent student  at the University of Pisa.

Initially he studied medicine.  However, his obsession with pendulums, a need to know how they worked and what forces caused them to swing with such regular precision, led him away from medicine. This study led to his first major discovery, that the period of a pendulum does not depend upon the arc of the swing.  This discovery fuelled further study, including the development of a pendulum clock.

He studied physics and mathematics of the Ancient Greeks, taking in Aristotle and Euclid. But he questioned Aristotle’s approach to falling objects. Aristotle believed that the speed of descent of a falling object increased with weight, a finding that Galileo felt did not match reality and one that he set out to test. He set up a series of experiments determining at what rate balls of different weight rolled down an incline, determining the position of the balls after a set time and noting that the rate was not related to the weight of the ball. In his text, De Motis, (On Motion), he announced his discoveries to the world.

In 1592, Galileo became a professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he made further contributions to mathematics, correctly calculating the optimum placement of oars in galleys by treating the oars as levers. He also designed other mechanical devices, a fascination that he pursued throughout his life. Alongside a pump that only required one horse to operate and shift huge volumes of water, Galileo made his telescope, in 1609. With this, he studied the moon and discovered that Jupiter had moons, as well as verifying the phases of Venus and observing a supernova. With all this information, he showed that the universe was not perfect, building upon the findings of Brahe and Kepler.  He also showed that the Copernican system was largely correct, in that the earth was merely a planet that revolved around the sun

Galileo Galilei was one of the most influential scientists of modern times, not just because of his use of the telescope and quantification of gravity, his contribution to the scientific method laid the foundations of modern science, giving direction to scientific research and moving it away from metaphysics.

Garnered from many sources in the Internet.

Grateful thanks to all of them.

Self-Improvement-149: SUCCESS

See your goal
Understand the obstacles
Create a positive mental picture
Clear your mind of self-doubt
Embrace the challenge
Stay on track
Show the world you can do it!

A Thought for Today-677: Dr A P J Abdul Kalm

All birds find shelter during a rain. But the eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but ATTITUDE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE - Dr A P J Abdul Kalam

Facts and Figures-79: Ptolemy, Father of Geology

Ptolemy is called the Father of Geology.

Self-Improvement-148: Mary Tyler Moore

Take chances.
Make mistakes.
That is how you grow.
Pain nourishes your courage.
You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

A Thought for Today-676: Thomas J. Watson

A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps - Thomas J. Watson

Facts and Figures-78: Tamil Nadu - Population

Population-wise, Tamil Nadu occupies the 7th place in India.

Self-Improvement-147: Kindness, Compassion and Love

Use your voice for kindness,
your ears for compassion,
your hands for charity,
your mind for truth,
and your heart for LOVE.

- Unknown