GLOBAL WARMING

IMPACT TREND MONITORING SYSTEM (ITMS)

*Peter Aniediabasi John (Research Consultant)
In the beginning the world must have been experiencing the impacts from inhabitant’s activities. Though infinitesimal,
but it was existing. The activities of man and the resultant effect today is a gradual build-up from man’s previous and
present activities. The accumulation of these activities, with neglects and absence of mind has resulted to the sudden
appearance of impacts today. The release of gases into the atmosphere have done so much harm to the environment,
leaving the world’s inhabitants at the mercy of the expected negative impacts, which cannot be stopped, but can be
managed. There are traces and events associated with Global Warming, which can be documented and studied, with
proper interpretation to the documented facts. It is a professional idea to note and watch the trend of activities over time
to enable an efficient accumulation of data and information, which will help in the interpretation and prediction of
future disastrous events. A multidisciplinary documentation can be used to generate data from the various
environmental components including social and health.

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Proper documentation of the changes associated with global warming is possible. This will act as a template from
which models can be formed and systems created to enable projections for possible future events. If this is done,
proper preparation can be put in place for effective management of the impacts. The rates and types of events may not
be recorded by man at the rate in which they occur. This justifies the reason why the Impact trend Monitoring System
(ITMS) should be considered. The system is made up of various components such as multi-phased operators, data
input and retrieval sub-system for two categories. These components interlinks directly with one another through a
model for a resultant development of an event prediction and alarm/warning scheme for end consumers. For an
effective operation of this system, strong unbiased policies/legal systems are required.

Multi-phased GIS-Real time model

component response component

Data Input Sub-system Processing Sub- Retrieval Sub-system

system

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Disaster Management Tool for Nigeria

The current plan in this part of the world does not make provision for future occurrences as regards expected impacts
from Global Warming. A lot have been done in different locations in Africa, which can be used as data for better
interpretations. Several studies including EIA, EER, EBS, EA and sometime special studies such as HIA, SIA, Site
specific meteorological Studies, Noise mapping, Topographical assessment/studies, and many other studies.
These are good tools for predictions and projections and to study the trend of change in our environment. In
locations where intensive studies have been conducted, routine ground trotting is necessary to generate data for trend
pattern. Currently, what we need in Nigeria and Africa as a whole is a database of environmental data, with very sound
quality control exercise conducted on the data before acceptance. It may also require the establishment of policies to
allow specially created agencies to be a compulsory part of a team in any environmental studies or surveys. This facts
paved way for the necessity of having a running system such as the ITMS, which includes a world class GIS tool as a
sub-unit and a fast and real time responding model.

Click to get a full map of the system. (Should you experience any delay contact: ecolegal.ng@gmail.com or
peanijo@yahoo.com)

See below for a Power Point Presentation done on this already at the 3rd International Conference on
“Environmental Science and Technology (EST)” Sponsored by American Academy of Sciences (AAS), 2007.