Sunday, May 11, 2008

the current hype over environmental issues is unecassary. do you agree?

i disagree. from article one, "climate change is upon us, and it has arrived welll ahead of schedule. scientist's projections that seem dire a decade ago tuen out to have been unduly optimistic: the warming and the melting is occuring much faster than the model predicted. now truly terrifying feedback loops threaten to boost the rate of change exponentially, as the shift from white ice to blue water in the artic absorbs more sunlight and warming soils everywhere becme more biologically active, causing them to release their vast stores of Carbon into the air ." thus it shows that the hype over environmentall issues are necessary. Our earth is dying, with ice caps melting at top speed, countires staring to be submerged, like the recent mynmmar cyclone, temperature rising way above normal temperatures. what climate scientists have predicted for the future are more optimistic than it really is. it is NECESSARY to have this hype, or maybe an even bigger hype to save OUR earth.

in the fifth article, they mentioned that "yet a false perception of risk may be about to lead to errors more expensive even than controlling the emission of benzene at tyre plants. carbon-dioxide emissions are causing the planet to warm. the bet estimates are that the temperature will rise by 2-3 degress celsius in this century, causing considerable problems, almose exclusively in the developing world , at a total cost of 5000 billion dollars. getting rid of gloabal warming would thus seem to be a good idea. the question is whether the cure will actaully cost more than the ailment" i disagree with the author. the current hype over these environmental issues pushes us to help save the world and not like what the author have stated, waste money saving earth. it doesnt mean that if the solution is expnsive we should not continue with it. even if the solution cannot change much, like a few degrees celcius, it doesnt mean we should not continue with the solution. what we have are funds, if we are not even willing to pump in the funds to help save the earth, who is going to?

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