ISS sends urgent climate message to CoP21

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  The Hindu

  Cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma sends his message to CoP 21 on Saturday. Photo: G. Ananthakrishnan            
  

  The video message from the ISS, including comments from Rakesh Sharma, was played at the 'Action Day' in Paris.

  As images of the earth from space rolled on giant screens, members of the International Space Station crew, Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, made a passionate appeal to the CoP21 Climate Conference to adopt a strong agreement that will stop the destruction of the earth.

  Joined by several astronauts and cosmonauts, the two visitors on the ISS said the destruction of earth visible from space in the form of deforestation, wild fires and pollution only underlines the urgent necessity to have a climate deal.

  The video message from the ISS, including comments from India's Rakesh Sharma, who was a cosmonaut on a Soyuz spacecraft to Salyut 7 space station in 1984, was played at the 'Action Day' in Paris at the UNFCCC conference.

  So dire is the world's situation, said Johan Rockstrom, Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, that the crisis in Syria was triggered by drought during 2007-10. Sea level rise would be inescapable, even with a one degree rise in temperature over pre-industrial times. Scientific evidence shows that unless strong action is taken immediately, people could not hope to continue living in conditions that have made the earth stable and habitable for the past 10,000 years.
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  The Hindu

  Astronauts Scott Kelly, and his colleague Kjell Lindgren on the International Space Station join astronauts and space scientists worldwide calling upon the world to act urgently on climate change, in a message played at CoP21 on Saturday. Photo: G Ananthakrishnan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

  The video message from the ISS, including comments from Rakesh Sharma, was played at the 'Action Day' in Paris.

  As images of the earth from space rolled on giant screens, members of the International Space Station crew, Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, made a passionate appeal to the CoP21 Climate Conference to adopt a strong agreement that will stop the destruction of the earth.
  Joined by several astronauts and cosmonauts, the two visitors on the ISS said the destruction of earth visible from space in the form of deforestation, wild fires and pollution only underlines the urgent necessity to have a climate deal.
  The video message from the ISS, including comments from India's Rakesh Sharma, who was a cosmonaut on a Soyuz spacecraft to Salyut 7 space station in 1984, was played at the 'Action Day' in Paris at the UNFCCC conference.
  So dire is the world's situation, said Johan Rockstrom, Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, that the crisis in Syria was triggered by drought during 2007-10. Sea level rise would be inescapable, even with a one degree rise in temperature over pre-industrial times. Scientific evidence shows that unless strong action is taken immediately, people could not hope to continue living in conditions that have made the earth stable and habitable for the past 10,000 years.
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