Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Roll: 12D100008
Course: ES 200
Date: 19/01/2015
Department: Mechanical
Though there is some truth to the idea of global warming, the issue
of climate change should also be openly debated. Although the
majority of scientists do believe that global warming is a real
phenomenon, there are also some scientists who are skeptical of the
prevailing scientific consensus. And it is in the spirit of this debate that
The Great Global Warming Swindle is relevant.
An inconvenient truth and The Great Global Warming Swindle are
documentaries with contrasting ideas. The film The Great Global
Warming Swindle is however seems more convincing to me as it
brings forth more logical facts and the scientists themselves asserting
the facts. Being an Engineering student it is easier for me to side with
scientists putting up facts rather than a politician presenting graphs
and figures. Assuming the data presented in The Great Global
Warming Swindle is not fabricated or manipulated in any way (which
are the reasons used to criticize the documentary) the conclusions
are quite convincing and tempting to be accepted.
If it is to happen so, that the greenhouse gases are not responsible
for the climate anomalies then the various measures taken by us so
far are futile in combating the Global warming and we are still left
with the problem of temperature rise. If it is to occur so that the
activities in the Sun are responsible for rising temperatures then we
are the sitting ducks at the mercy of nature for humans can correct
their follies but not rebel against nature.
However as the saying goes that Prevention is better than cure, to
be on the safer side it would be wise to keep on controlling unwanted
emissions of various greenhouse gases like CO2 if technologically
some countries are capable to do so but it should not be forced on
developing and poor nations who are backwards and cannot afford it.