Recently I attended a talk at a local ACS (American Chemical Society) section meeting about Global warming. The talk was not the usual one where they tell you about the harmful effects of global warming and climate change. Rather, this talk was about how this whole theory of global warming and climate change is flawed and how this is overhyped by some groups of scientists and organizations (including the UN) to misguide people. It was an interesting talk and it was more interesting to attend it in the local ACS section because as far as I know officially the ACS supports the hypothesis of global warming and comments about its harmful effects in all its editorials and publications. It was interesting to see that they invited a speaker who not only questioned this entire theory but also called it a total hoax. Actually, this is the true spirit of science. Every view should be welcomed, and every voice should be heard, doesn't matter which theory they propose or oppose, they just need to show the relevant data to prove their hypothesis, and the scientific community can debate about it. It really doesn't matter whose theory or hypothesis is being challenged, the name or the status or age of the scientist shouldn't matter only the data should matter.
Climate change is a very popular subject nowadays for debates and discussions. I guess it has become as controversial and sensitive as religion or the existence of god, people argue very passionately for or against this issue. Climate change covers many aspects related to the effect of human actions on the climate of our planet. Global warming is just a part of it, no doubt it has received the most attention, and this is why it is widely debated and questioned. People who try to object to climate change mainly target the issue of global warming. They claim that data presented in support of global warming is wrong or unreliable and that global warming is a completely natural phenomenon that we don't have to worry about. By questioning data for global warming its opponents try to question the phenomena of climate change. Many try to claim that both climate change and global warming are not real issues or problems but false propaganda by some elite group of scientists. Both sides who support or oppose global warming produce lots of data to support their claims and both claim that their data is reliable and the other side's data is incorrect.
All these issues can be debated and discussed, actually, debates and discussions are the best way to solve such disputes. But I don't think there can be any dispute about the impact of human behavior on our climate. We can clearly see it and even feel it in many places. We are producing enormous amounts of waste by our uncontrolled consumerism, and this waste is bound to have some effect on our environment. We can clearly see the effects of deforestation, water, and air pollution, and poor management of waste in many parts of the world. This has also created many health problems for people. High levels of water and air pollution, and health hazards associated with them are clearly because of human behavior. Climate change doesn't mean only global warming, it means the effect of our actions on the general health of this planet. Continuous abuse of the earth and its resources under the name of development is having an impact on its health. We can definitely debate or discuss the severity of climate change and the steps required to tackle this problem but I think it would be very wrong to assume that human behavior is not having any detrimental effect on the climate of this planet. I hope supporters and opponents of climate change engage in some meaningful discussion, just playing a blame game is not going to help anyone. After all, we are talking about the entire planet here, the only place in our galaxy where we know that life exists. Let's get serious about this issue and try our best to keep our planet in good shape, this will be the greatest gift we can give to our future generations.
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Climate change is a very popular subject nowadays for debates and discussions. I guess it has become as controversial and sensitive as religion or the existence of god, people argue very passionately for or against this issue. Climate change covers many aspects related to the effect of human actions on the climate of our planet. Global warming is just a part of it, no doubt it has received the most attention, and this is why it is widely debated and questioned. People who try to object to climate change mainly target the issue of global warming. They claim that data presented in support of global warming is wrong or unreliable and that global warming is a completely natural phenomenon that we don't have to worry about. By questioning data for global warming its opponents try to question the phenomena of climate change. Many try to claim that both climate change and global warming are not real issues or problems but false propaganda by some elite group of scientists. Both sides who support or oppose global warming produce lots of data to support their claims and both claim that their data is reliable and the other side's data is incorrect.
All these issues can be debated and discussed, actually, debates and discussions are the best way to solve such disputes. But I don't think there can be any dispute about the impact of human behavior on our climate. We can clearly see it and even feel it in many places. We are producing enormous amounts of waste by our uncontrolled consumerism, and this waste is bound to have some effect on our environment. We can clearly see the effects of deforestation, water, and air pollution, and poor management of waste in many parts of the world. This has also created many health problems for people. High levels of water and air pollution, and health hazards associated with them are clearly because of human behavior. Climate change doesn't mean only global warming, it means the effect of our actions on the general health of this planet. Continuous abuse of the earth and its resources under the name of development is having an impact on its health. We can definitely debate or discuss the severity of climate change and the steps required to tackle this problem but I think it would be very wrong to assume that human behavior is not having any detrimental effect on the climate of this planet. I hope supporters and opponents of climate change engage in some meaningful discussion, just playing a blame game is not going to help anyone. After all, we are talking about the entire planet here, the only place in our galaxy where we know that life exists. Let's get serious about this issue and try our best to keep our planet in good shape, this will be the greatest gift we can give to our future generations.
Thanks for reading and please share your views on this topic.
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