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Warmer Winters, Not Bad?
Higher temperature, rising ocean, retreating glacier, lower water table. They are not our problems, at least not this generation.
Sceptics in global warming use the same tactics as tobacco companies in the early days when smoking was found to be the cause of cancer and a whole assortment of illness. We were told that the evidence was not conclusive and there were many other reasons for cancer. We were also told that the evidence was statistical and not medical. Now that medical researches have silented all but the most irrational sceptics.
We can keep debating about the causes of global warming. No one can tell how much time we have before a certain threshold is reached and there will be no turning back. We simply don’t know. But we we do know now is that we can no longer blame the sun and volcano activities for warming our earth. It’s us.
We do not even know whether Kyoto is the answer. But if the worst (USA) and the 2nd worst polluter (China) of the world are not signing up. It probably will not give us the answer.
Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California released a report about Global warming concluding that the “warming signals” in the oceans could only have been produced by the build-up of man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and not attributable to non-human factors.
The report also looked at the likely climatic effects of the warming which should come as no surprise to anyone who had watched ‘The Day After Tomorrow’.
Well, it could be a very dark day.
Posted on February 18, 2005 08:09 PM
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