Namaste HDF,
I was at a loss for words after reading this news item. You can read the full story from this link, how ever the highlighted portion(s) and the researcher identity has got lot to say.
I see this as a direct attack on Hindu practices and beliefs.
Holy smoke arising from Hindu funeral pyres, Muslim cemeteries and Buddhist temples are responsible for almost a quarter of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming on the Indian subcontinent and the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, a new study has claimed.Researchers have long suspected that the rituals of religious devotion in India, Nepal and South Asia, may be a factor in the level of brown carbon and soot which pollutes the air in the region, but until now little work has been done to quantify the size of the problem.Between 2011 and 2012, the researchers measured emissions from marriage ceremonies, funeral cremations, incense sticks in temples and graveyards, and found mango bark, cow dung, camphor, leaves, vermillion, and cow urine being burned."There are three million religious places of worship in India alone and over 10 million marriages take place every year in this country according to the 2011 census.
"When these results were multiplied to fit these scales, the quantum of emissions was just baffling," researcher Shamsh Pervez said.
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