A Study About Realities of Climate Change: Glacier Melting and Growing Crises

Abstract

Climate change has ceased to be a scientific curiosity since long, and is no longer just one of many environmental and regulatory concerns. As the Secretary General of United Nations has said, it is the major, overriding environmental issue of our time, and the single greatest challenge faced by environmental regulators. It is a growing crisis with economic, health and safety, food production, security, and other dimensions. Climate change is expected to hit developing countries the hardest. Its effects; higher temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, rising sea levels, and more frequent weather-related disasters-pose risks for agriculture, food, and water supplies. The fight against poverty, hunger and disease, and the lives and livelihoods of billions of people in developing countries are at stake. Tackling this immense challenge must involve both mitigation-to avoid the unmanageable and adaptation- to manage the unavoidable while maintaining a focus on its social dimensions.