Tourism is a significant contributor to global warming. While many tourist hotspots have managed to keep pollution and resource degradation within check, most are struggling and getting polluted and degraded

According to the notes prepared by a climate change awareness group, with the increasing global temperatures, winds can hold more moisture and this increased moisture can lead to increased amount of 'short duration intense rainfall' as in case of a cloudburst.

From the administrative view point, a tripartite division should have been more viable for three regions -- Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh -- which are mutually exclusive in aspects of language, religion, geography and situation. The present division seems motivated by the fear of creating and managing a separate hostile province of Kashmir valley