Hot air from Rajasthan power plants may have fanned Karachi heatwave

[Mr.Nair]

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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan has said that the coal-powered plants in Rajasthan, India, could have contributed to the deadly Karachi heat wave.

“Trans-boundary pollution is a worldwide concern. We will investigate,” he said at a National Clean Development Mechanism Programme event here on Wednesday.

In the minister’s view “a fallout effect of the coal-powered plants, in combination with other abnormal climate change events, possibly added to the already warm temperatures” in bordering Sindh.

“If our findings say so, the ministry will raise the concern with the United Nations,” he said, adding that his office was gathering information on the problem.

His remarks caught many by surprise as his own PML-N government has ambitious plans to generate power from coal to overcome the electricity crisis, which is partly blamed for nearly 800 heatstroke deaths in Karachi in the past five days.

“It will be easy to establish which direction the heatwave came from and where it was headed in the next few days,” an official of the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency said. Technology is available for that, according to him.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had to declare a state of emergency as beside the dead, hundreds more victims of the heatwave are being treated in Karachi and other places in Sindh.

It was also the job of the Karachi administration to investigate if the local environmental departments, such as Provincial Disaster Management Authority, were doing their jobs and taken necessary measures to lessen the death toll from the heat wave, said the minister for climate change.

Frequent and long power outages added to the difficulties of the residents in Karachi because they had no means to cool themselves with electric fans and air-conditioners.

A Ministry of Climate Change officer noted that coal-run power plants are the main source of electricity for India’s arid Rajasthan state.

“It has plans to build more such plants to power the industrial growth and other needs of the state,” he said.

However, the minister’s “fallout effect” suspicions did not surprise environment experts. They have been raising concerns about trans-boundary pollution from Indian into Pakistan occasionally.

Director General, Pakistan Meteorological Department, Dr Ghulam Rasul is one such voice who has complained about ‘black carbon’ emitted from steel mills in the north of India that were carried by winds into Pakistan.

“Winds carrying the black soot had been settling and accumulating on the glaciers in Pakistan’s northern areas. The black soot absorbs more heat, causing the glaciers to melt faster,” the expert explained.

Minister Mushahidullah asserts that global warming is not a local problem but a worldwide concern. “It’s not just Pakistan but the entire region will be affected by the melting of glaciers,” he told Wednesday’s event.

The frequent and heavy spell of rainfall in last few months and the heat wave in Karachi only show how seriously the problem of climate change is.

“The rich countries have benefited from industrial development but all at the cost of environment that poor vulnerable countries like Pakistan are now paying. It is imperative that the rich countries spend some of that money to conserve environment and help Pakistan adapt to the altering climate, which it cannot achieve on its own for lack of resources,” the minister said.

Published in Dawn, June 25th, 2015

Hot air from Rajasthan power plants may have fanned Karachi heatwave - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

RAW Conspiracy again

Yindu-Zionist Kanspiracy.

 

[agamdilawari]

Tum kitne Zaid Hamid pakroge....har kone se Zaid Hamid niklega

 

[kṣamā]

Just Like Indian Media Blames that Heat wave was from Pakistan side causing 2300+ Deaths

When we all Learn.... Face Palm

Dude you may have to look at the news article again. It said heat wave coming from Pakistan (As in geographical location) is raising temperatures in Northern India. We did not blame Pakistan for heating up the atmosphere in India.

Now that our favorite neighbor is again acting up and pointing fingers lets crunch some nos to either prove or disprove it.

We are calculating if indeed Coal powered power-plants can heat up the environment to that level.
Ok now a simple web search takes us to Climate Science for Everyone: How much heat can the air and ocean store? | Scholars and Rogues | Progressive Culture This pages gives us

In other words, it takes about 5.95 x 10^21 Joules to raise the temperature of the atmosphere one degree Celsius.

Converting the above value to KWh we get the value as 1.6527 x 10^18KWh but this value is for the entire world. To calculate for Pakistan multiplying it with a factor of 0.0015115196 as this is the fraction of land area covered by Pakistan compared to total surface of earth. And as air is evenly distributed on earth, this calculation provides approximately acurate result. So to heat up Pakistani Atmosphere we would need 2.49808845 x 10^15KWh of energy.

Now Coal generates 1,904 kWh per ton so that gives 1.3120212447479 x 10^13 Ton to generate that heat. But remember this is the calculation for 1 degree Celsius.

I donn think we use this much coal in Rajesthan !!

 

[OrionHunter]

Now that's a lot of hot air! (pun unintended!)

Damn RAW testing their thrermo WMDs.

Seriously, Pak politicians are losing their brain cells in the heat and poking fun at those who have perished. Sucks, what?

 

[Kolachi Punjabi]

It's not a conspiracy theory, cross-border pollution is a real thing and Indian factories and power plants near Pakistani borders are emitting emission which are affecting the environment, it may not be deliberate

 

[wadi79]

It's not a conspiracy theory, cross-border pollution is a real thing and Indian factories and power plants near Pakistani borders are emitting emission which are affecting the environment, it may not be deliberate

If you are really worried about the environment, then you should be talking to China. They burn 50% of world's coal and are responsible for about 25% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Next comes the big aid-giver, US, which pumped out 17% of global carbon emissions. India is responsible for barely 5% - though it has one-sixth of the world's people. Since we all share the same atmosphere, and the carbon dioxide gets spread all over the globe, you should credit the right guys with heating up the planet. If there is climate change, we sure aren't causing it. Please ask your friends in US and China to cut back.

 

[livingdead]

It's not a conspiracy theory, cross-border pollution is a real thing and Indian factories and power plants near Pakistani borders are emitting emission which are affecting the environment, it may not be deliberate

this is a global issue... I dont think power plants in rajasthan(specifically) can affect whole of sindh including karachi. Look at the map.

 

[Echo_419]

Nothing to joke about. Apparently 1000 or so people have died. This is a serious issue, Indian government should do something about it. Sooner or later the same affects will be witnessed in India, i assume in some parts such affects are already visible. Again something needs to be done about this.

Same thing happened last time with us

Did the minister consult climatologist before making this absurd statement.

I think not but even if this is true the govt of India has already initiated a program where we will replace a lot of thermal power with solar power specially Rajasthan & Gujarat

 

[Mr.Nair]

Tum kitne Zaid Hamid pakroge....har kone se Zaid Hamid niklega

Another zaid hamid of pakistan claiming every pakistani will buy jets

@GURU DUTT

 

[Mr.Nair]

Another Zaid Hamid claiming pakistan drones technologically more advanced than US

 

[GURU DUTT]

Another zaid hamid of pakistan claiming every pakistani will buy jets

@GURU DUTT

sir ji my video link not working

which jet are they talking about and in what context ?

Tum kitne Zaid Hamid pakroge....har kone se Zaid Hamid niklega

kaion ko to subh se do baar mai bhi nikal chukka hoon

 

[Mr.Nair]

sir ji my video link not working

which jet are they talking about and in what context ?




kaion ko to subh se do baar mai bhi nikal chukka hoon

He is referring to pipeline project to china.Claiming pakistani's will not buy Toyota corolla instead jets.Sorry he didn't told whether Airbus or boeing

 

[GURU DUTT]

He is referring to pipeline project to china.Claiming pakistani's will not buy Toyota corolla instead jets.Sorry he didn't told whether Airbus or boeing

and who is this einstine ?

 

[Mr.Nair]

and who is this einstine ?

I don't know.He know that it is easy to sell hilarious comments in pakistan and to be popular rather than bitter truth comments and to be marked as a traitor.