Global Warming

A recent report on global warming that described a scientific study read as below:

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The climate is heating up far faster than scientists had predicted, spurred by sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries like China and India, a top climate scientist said on Saturday.

“The consequence of that is we are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we’ve considered seriously,” Chris Field, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.

Field said “the actual trajectory of climate change is more serious” than any of the climate predictions in the IPCC’s fourth assessment report called “Climate Change 2007.”

It is interesting to note how the causality for climate “heating up far faster than scientists had predicted” has been directly and as if entirely linked to emerging countries like India and China. In the same lines it is worth noting that while emerging countries can certainly take more steps towards curtailing GHG emissions, the so called ‘developed’ world is still the largest emitter of GHG. It is ridiculous for countries like US and UK to lift their hand up and say that they will cut down on GHG only if and after emerging countries double up and match their endeavors.

The ‘developed’ countries are the ones who have destroyed wealth in most of the now emerging countries with their capital muscle growing obviously by dining on stolen meat from the now emerging countries not so far in the history, it is imperative that these ‘developed’ countries get their act together on all policies relating to GHG emission and then start comparing themselves with those that are economically incapable [at least in the short run] of matching such efficacy.

Comments welcome.

Peace,

K

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~ by Karthik on February 14, 2009.