The topic of global warming is the hot topic these days (pun unintended :D). Especially singers the world over seem to be concerned more than everyone else about it. Why singers is something that escapes me, some other people, notably politicians are always averse to talking about it. In fact, the biggest user of fuels, the USA actually refuses to commit to any changes. The fact that emerging powerhouses, China and India, also do not wish to do anything, doesn't help anyone. They can probably hide behind the argument that their fragile developing economies cannot take the load. While the USA hides behing their fragile developed economy. Actually a lot of people also place doubts on the accuracy and truth behind claims that our actions are responsible for global warming. Some data has been thrown around that it's actually become cooler at some place, god knows where. My hometown has become progressively hotter in the summers and colder in the winters, rainy season is now dry (it rains more in the winters), and the list goes on.
The wonderful work of researchers is evident. Someone (Aaron Levenstein actually, who's he??) once said that, "Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." . I'd like to add, like a bikini, what's revealed depends a lot on ur vantage point. You can make interesting conclusions from the same statistics, even completely contradicting stuff.
Still, no one can deny that the earth is definitely heating up. And sense dictates, that like any other natural calamity we try our best to avert it. But, most world leaders seem to be convinced that this is not the case. From what I know, this phase is usually a precursor to a coming ice age, meaning the ice caps at the poles will melt completely, flooding the planet, and eventually freezing to ice. Kinda like Day After tomorrow showed, but a little less dramatic. Well, maybe we'll be around to see whether things actually happen the way it's claimed. Maybe it will, the earth hasn't lost its supremacy to any puny creature as yet, it has ways to show who's boss.
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i agree, attention must be paid to the global warming issues..But I disagree that politicans are shying away from the situation...May be it is true for India but there is a lot of research being promoted by people like Clinton and all...I rem seeing a movie in which there was some famous US politician and AB and others, all for one and only cause: Global warming!
ya, well al gore does. let me rephrase, no politician in power is very interested in doing anything substantial. in fact al gore quoted in his movie, that us car manufacturers wanna avoid meeting emission restrictions by 2010 which the chinese already meet :D.
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