Given that it resulted some climate scientists withdrawing
their names from the recent UN IPCC climate change findings report, is the
report too alarmist?
By: Ringo Bones
Given that climate change research has been hijacked not
only by powerful commercial interests of big crude oil and dirty coal
extraction and processing companies but also of political interests funded by
“big oil” and “big coal” commercial entities, who’s telling the truth has never
been so polarized by not only where your political and religious allegiances
lie but also where you lie in the commercial transaction of our still largely
polluting energy production means. It has been said that back in 2012, carbon
dioxide emissions by all the fossil fueled power plants around the world is 200
times that produced by all of the world’s volcanoes. Given the sobering
statistics, is climate change really irreversible and already done its worse as
said in a recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report?
Most of us are probably old enough to remember the
cautionary tales on the consequence of our runaway fossil fuel burning
lifestyle in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth – especially on how Hurricane
Katrina that devastated New Orleans back in 2005 might have been primarily
caused by our largely preventable greenhouse gas emissions wreaking havoc on
the earth’s delicate climate. Even though some heads of states of the leading
industrialized countries are announcing their long term plans to wean themselves
away from extensive fossil fuel burning to more earth friendly renewable power
generating means like wind turbines and solar. But have we already thrown
enough carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to have
irreversibly damaged our delicate climate system?
