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Steel pipes can check rising sea levels: professor

Posted: 24 May 2011 11:35 PM PDT

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An Indian professor has claimed that the threat of rising sea levels due to global warming can be averted by floating stainless steel pipes in the sea, according to the Press Trust of India (PTI).

Vedagiri Ganesan, who retired from Bharathiar University, recently submitted
a proposal to the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Goa, detailing the role of stainless steel as a solution to tackle sea level rise, a global environment threat.

According to Ganesan, high temperature level of the sea surface is a major
cause of melting of ice in the Polar region. The heat from the sea water will not get transferred to the air due to the surface tension which, in turn, will not allow the low-temperature at the atmosphere of Polar regions to cool sea water. The high temperature, naturally, cause to the melting of ice and to the rise of sea levels, he detailed.

Meanwhile, the proposal titled "Reversal of Polar ice melt, sea level rise,
coastal submergence, CO2 release and global warming," claims that the steel
floats will function as an effective Thermal Conduction Facilitation Interface

System (TCFIS) and facilitate heat transfered to the air.

The professor also predicted that the 35,000 glaciers in the Himalayas would
melt in five years and it would cause flood in major coastal areas in the
country including the port cities like Mumbai and Kochi. -- Bernama

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Kedah crime index drops by 8pc

Posted: 24 May 2011 09:55 PM PDT

JITRA: The Kedah crime index dropped nearly eight per cent during the first four months of this year compared to the same period last year or from 4,285 cases to 3,953 cases, Kedah police chief Datuk Ahmad Ibrahim said.

Street crime showed the highest percentage of reduction at 22.59 per cent or
from 478 cases during the period last year to 370 cases for the period this
year.

"Violent crime cases dropped by 6.88 per cent, while property crime dropped
by 7.93 per cent," he told reporters after opening shooting skills tests in

conjunction with 204th Police Day here today.

He said the latest development showed that the effort to combat crime had

been successful.

A total of 350 personnel from 11 district police headquarters took part in
the event aims at enhancing their competency in handling firearms. -- Bernama

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