Series of meetings related to COPS—Bali, Egpyt, Montreal and may be in Delhi later this year, are all still debating the response to internationally acceptable limit to temperature increase. None now questions the increase but only as to how to manage it! In addition to the rise in temperature, world is increasingly facing the plastic problem to the extent that even rain water pours microplastics in New Zealand.

     In the meantime, on the health front while the world economy seems to be gradually opening up after more than two years of downhill slide, China—the starting point of the pandemic slow down still seem to face serious issues on the covid front with large infections reported around the country. This is a serious matter for the whole world since people are again travelling and thus are potential carriers of multitude of new variants of the virus.

     The winter blizzard in North America is an indication how nature reacts to climate change— unpredictable and unstoppable. We can all only wish for better days and senses to come regarding climate change drivers.

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