Despite being awarded the Nobel peace prize the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by India's RK Pachauri has fallen into oblivion of Indian journalists after making current news on TV and in newspapers. This reflects the neglectful attitude of our journalists towards coverage of contribution of an Indian environmentalist to build up and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to counteract such changes as the chairman of IPCC, considered worth much for the Nobel peace award by the Nobel committee.

The report from IPCC indicates global warming by up to 6 degrees the century with the devastation phenomena of elevation of sea level and fall of many rivers including the Ganges to be underground. The researches and evidences show that to stop further damage to the climate we need a reduction of carbon dioxide, CFCs and other greenhouse emissions to 60% worldwide. The IPCC has also suggested a methodology of adoption of clean form of energy with strong emission cutting measures. It is a pity that India is not prepared to stick to the policy of maintaining forests & pasturages and taking up emission cutting measures. That is why the IPCC is almost irrelevant for both the politicians and the administrators in India.

Our government followed the horizontal expansion of housing and industrial tracts in the name of development. The indiscriminate housing and industrialization persuaded us to good bye our national forest policy - a theoretical submission of the political will power to keep at least 33.33% land under dense forests and pasturages. Unfortunately only 22% land of India is covered under so called forest. Surprisingly in Rajasthan where only 3% dense and 6% scattered, total 9% land is under forest cover, the state government is busy in acquiring 145 km long circular strip of land around Jaipur to construct a ring road. It is estimated that the proposed outer ring road of Jaipur will engulf 1200 sq. km. of area and is expected to be completed by Dec 2009, if environmentalists, farmers and media people don't resist it as strongly as they did at Nandigram in West Bengal.

So it is needed to be continuously highlighted by media what the environmental organizations like IPCC and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) comment on lifestyle in context of global warming. Environmentalists believe that the climate change is not the root problem; it is just one of the several critical environmental symptoms attributable to unsustainable lifestyles. The remedy to climate change lies with the culture of personal behaviour, the only way to inculcate the eco-friendly lifestyle.

The culture of personal behaviour demands people, whether they may leave the comforts of today's technical development. That means whether they may travel by public transport instead of going by car to cut down carbon dioxide emission, whether they may tend to consume fresh food products to avoid CFC based home refrigerator, whether they may demand clean renewable energy to meet out their home energy requirement and whether they may protest strongly against anti-environment projects like Nandigram in West Bengal or Jaipur Ring Road in Rajasthan.