Sand Santa’s Art - Climate change awareness

Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik created sand Santa clauses to elevate the consciousness about the global climate change. He creates 100 Santa for the awareness program.

He placed the sand Santa in a tourist place of puri, its near Orissa state capital of Bhubaneswar. The art gives the message “Save the Earth from Global Warming” and combat climate change, encourage people to plant trees as Christmas gift.

Golden Institute of sand art students assisted, it take more that 36 hours to build Santa and the 1,000 tons of sand used for the art.

US for transparency to evaluate commitments on climate accord

The Obama organization on Wednesday exuded assurance that there will be an adequate amount of transparency and sufficient data so that everyone can fairly evaluate whether country are living up the commitments they made at the last-week's Copenhagen climate conference.

Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P J Crowley said, "One of the significant issues when the Secretary arrived on Thursday morning and worked through these issues during the day on Thursday and the President on Friday was in fact to make sure that there was a significant, verification aspect to the accord."

Crowley said. "We think at the end of the day, through some very exhaustive dialogue by the President and the Secretary with world leaders, that what emerge from Copenhagen information have has the kind of transparency and mechanisms so that in fact we can have access to data with not in an intrusive way, but just so we'll have enough clearness and access to data so that everyone can fairly evaluate whether countries are living up to their agreements."

Atmosphere:

Everybody is speaking about the climate and weather daily. Do all know about atmosphere? Ready the short info about that .

The earth is surrounded by some kind of gases like

Nitrogen – 78.1%
Oxygen – 20.9%
Argon – 0.93%
Carbon dioxide – 0.038% and some other gases.

Totally atmosphere is divided into different layers.

Troposphere:

The layer nearest the Earth is the troposphere, which reach up to a height of about 8 km in the Polar Regions and up to 17 km higher than the equator. The weather conditions we understanding takes place within the troposphere.

Stratosphere:

The stratosphere lies top of the troposphere and reaches an altitude of about 50 km. The ozone layer that protects us from the sun’s ultraviolet emission is within the stratosphere.

Mesosphere:

The mesosphere extends from the top of the stratosphere up to 80-90 km. as a final point, the thermosphere, or ionosphere, gradually diminishes and forms a downy border with outer space. There is very little integration of gases between layers.

Climate change discussion:

Lok Sabha will talk about at length on Thursday the topic of climate change, weeks in advance of a crucial summit in Copenhagen to make your mind up ways and means to tackle the observable fact of global warming. An unusual discussion has been programmed in the Lower House where the management is probable to state its stand of not long-suffering any with authorization requisite carbon secretion cuts.

Minister for atmosphere and Forests Jairam Ramesh is anticipated to respond for the period of the discussion. Ramesh will signify India at the ministerial level talks at Copenhagen on December 14 at the same time as the Danish Prime Minister has complete an invite to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take part in the plenary on December 18. For the meantime, Congress steered clear of question whether the Prime Minister will take a trip to Copenhagen to take part in the climate change discussion.