Having spent most of his working life looking for precious water resources across the higher Himalayas, Indian Guinness record holder Ritesh Arya is preparing to explode what he believes are “unnecessary” myths about global warming. Dr Arya, who was also recently listed amongst the top 10 small-scale renewable energy
innovators at the World Renewable Energy Summit at Dubai for his work on geothermal energy in the Himalayas, has been invited to develop his findings on global warming as a research paper for presentation at the Global Conference on Global Warming 2011 at Lisbon Spain later this year.
He holds the Guinness Record for drilling the world’s highest tubewell for the Indian Army at Siachen in 2001. Entitled, “C-Curves & Global Warming”, the young scientist will use field geological data (palaeoclimatic signatures available in rock formations) collected in the Ladakh Region to demonstrate that “global warming is a natural process and man and his activities have no role in enhancing or reducing the cyclic process.”
He employs qualitative and quantitative distinctions in the deposition of sediments (now solidified as rock) to demonstrate the cyclical warming and cooling phases that the earth seems to have undergone over time. “We are currently in a global warming era and the process of this warming began around the last ice age that is believed to have ended around 10,000 years ago,” said Mr Arya.