Prudent Media Goa's video: WESTERN GHATS WILL LOSE 33 BIODIVERSITY BY 2050 DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENTISTS

Climate change will wreak havoc in north-eastern parts of the Karnataka as well as the districts housing the Western Ghats as high-intensity rain in short duration will overwhelm the existing systems of precipitation and run-off channels within the next 30 years, said two scientists who were part of the team that wrote the latest UN climate change report. In a discussion organised by Bangalore Climate Change Initiative-Karnataka (BCCI-K) here on Saturday, prof (retd) N H Ravindranath, and Prof G Bala, both from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), said the models for Karnataka show that it was imperative for the state government to ensure every single development project takes into consideration the potential long-term climate impact The two were part of the group of scientists and experts who worked on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report which issued a grim warning to the world earlier this week. "Even when we commit to the COP-25 agreement and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the changes that will occur in the next 20 to 30 years are disastrous. Because the change is not enough to reduce the damage," Ravindranath said, calling for urgent urgent reforms in the sectors of power generation, cement, steel and other heavy industries. He said that at the state level, Karnataka has much to lose from the extreme weather phenomena. "About 33 per cent of the biodiversity of the Western Ghats will be lost by 2050 due to extreme weather. This is irreversible. As part of this change, the , the forests will change from evergreen to deciduous and dry deciduous," he said. Building 1,400 check dams in the eco-sensitive Western Ghats region ‘to hold the water flowing into the sea’ will have disastrous consequences, argue environmentalists. The proposal was floated recently by the Minor Irrigation Department, which sought funds from the Jal Shakti Ministry for the dams. Ecologists point out that such projects are one of the key factors for rampant landslides reported in the Western Ghats region over the past decade or so.  PRUDENT MEDIA GOA | Most Popular Goa News Channel Check out latest news on Goa, Politics, Business, Cricket, Technology, Automobile, Lifestyle & Health and Travel. _news_channel _news _Goa_News_Live_Today Subscribe on youtube ► https://goo.gl/taiJmn More on https://www.prudentmedia.in Download Goa’s No. 1 News Channel Mobile App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.PrudentMedia&hl=en_IN&showAllReviews=true Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/prudentmedia Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/prudentgoa