Bangalore is scorching hot!!

Barely 3 weeks back, the weather in Bangalore was cool as a cucumber, but now it is not just extremely hot but also sweaty and annoying. Bangalore is one of those favored places in India, where winter persists for at least 5 months of every year and for the rest of the year, the climate sides mildly towards the winter, although you cannot call it a Spring. And mind you, most of us need not switch on the fan to sleep in the night, Bangalore nights are like built in air conditioning at service 24/7 with mild showers then and there. You will easily come across people wearing a pair of sock inside their houses. Well, the climate is that beautiful!  But, by the mid of March this year, suddenly everything changed, like somebody pulled a stack of card, the climate became painfully hot and sweaty, it is not even summer yet! Why this abrupt climate change?

Who is the culprit behind causing such an inconvenience not just to Bangalore but to the entire world(but mainly to India)? - Yes, you guessed it right, Global Warming!

What is Global Warming anyway?
Global warming is caused by wide-spread human interference in the environment. There are three main reasons:

1. Our factories, manufacturing units, industries emit Carbon Dioxide(CO2)in huge amount into the atmosphere, this has given way to Greenhouse Effect* which in turn catapulted the weather and made it warmer or hotter for longer duration of time and that is why our Summer starts and extends beyond Summer.
2. The other reason is clearing of forests, otherwise called as deforestation. In the urban world, we see a lot of multi-storeyed buildings and sprawling shopping malls shining bright by taking the place of dense forests. 
3. Day-in-day-out, we see an increase in the number of vehicle on road and that constitutes to CO2 emission as well and adds pressure to the already depleting environment.

Now let us talk about, what "little" can we do to fix this from our end and save our Earth from further depletion?

1. Education is King: Let people know about Global Warming and educate them into doing their bit. Use electricity wisely. When your niece Preeti doesn't switch off the fan, do not do it for her. Ask her to come back and switch the fan off. Yes, you guessed it right, I'm definitely gonna throw in the following line "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime". HaHa, I love interesting lines, you see.
2. Use CFL bulbs and tubes instead of the regular ones.
3. Use re-cycled paper and products.
4. Use public transportation once in a while by letting your car sit in the garage for say at least once or twice a month :-) OR if you have good savings, go buy a Hybrid or Electric Car, their emission levels are low or Nil(Nil is too strong of a word, Hmm.... I doubt!!).
5. Plant trees(only if you don't live in the apartment's 9th floor & upwards, b'coz you cannot enjoy the benefits, you see) :-).
6. I firmly believe in the line "To each, his own" but I would still go ahead and say the following & will give an explanation as to why I insist - "Become a vegetarian or vegan gradually". Hey, I turned vegetarian 8 years ago and I'm enjoying my stint as a vegetarian. Although, I eat egg big time, I will find an alternative to egg & will give up consuming egg gradually. Research proves that, Farm Animals are responsible for more greenhouse gas emission than vehicles - Can you believe that? The billions of chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows who are crammed into factory farms produce enormous amounts of methane, both during digestion and from the excreta. Scientists report that, every pound of methane is more than 20 times as effective as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in our atmosphere.

Although point number 6 is too much to ask for, we can all try to follow until point number 5, can't we?
Let us do our part and make our Earth a better place to live.
Pour in your thoughts!

Glossary:
*Greenhouse Effect(The below definition is from Wikipedia):
The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal(heat) radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions. Since part of this re-radiation is back towards the surface and the lower atmosphere, it results in an elevation of the average surface temperature above what it would be in the absence of the gases.
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