Friday, December 18, 2009

Climate change debate:

After much debate with myself whether to dive into controversial subjects or not, I decided why not, I can also have my two cents (or pennies or whatever currency) worth of opinions into the equation. So here I am going into one of the most controversial topic of all time (I believe) whether our earth is warming and at what speed and who is responsible and who should pay for it and what should be done about it. Before I go full blown into it, my opinion is just my opinion, nobody has to go haywire if I don’t agree with them and nobody should be excited that I side with them.

So let’s see where I shall start. Is the earth really warming? That is a billion (or a trillion dollar questions depending upon the estimated costs need to fix it if any). There is as much divergent view as there are people. Most of the views are fairly controversial but most are fairly a shrug on the part of people. The scientist say that yes the earth is warming but there are few who say otherwise. Every time there is a harsh weather in one year people start to discuss if it is warming or just plain old cold weather. The people point out that if it is so cold how is the earth getter warmer. But the scientists don’t see it a once in a year phenomenon but rather a long path where they can say that it is getting warmer. But here again if it getting warmer by how much. This is more controversial since the amount by which it is getting warmer can have an impact of policies of the various governments and survival for some (like some low lying islands).

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