So why did I suddenly started to say.. “Global Warming is Crap-there are better issues to work on” ??

The people who know me the most would find it quite interesting that I talk so ill about the whole Global Warming drama. So I need to do some explaining on the very first reasons for my change.

Hmm.. yes there was a time when I was very concerned about the amount of Carbon I should emit on my day-to-day activities. Then why the sudden change?.. You’ll never believe this, in around November of last year only I actually watched the much acclaimed ‘The Inconvenient Truth’..

So what did I see?..

I always feel bit suspicious of people who claim that they are doing all the good in the world. For by experience I know humility is a virtue of a great man., a virtue this movie lacked. So I watched this movie..minus any emotions…I just watched to understand the issue in strict scientific sense..

One slide show was highly questionable. It was the slide show where AL Gore was analyzing the ice core records. He drew a graph of CO2 quantity in the atmosphere vs time and a Temperature vs Time graph on the same grid. Interestingly there was a correlation…Ahh and he concluded that whenever CO2 increased in the atmosphere, the Temperature increased too.. Seems quite convincing..if you didn’t have all the facts.

Two things came to my mind.. One; how did the CO2 percentage go up and down in the past?..what drove that increase or the decrease which caused the ice ages and the warm periods of the past? Second was a bit tricky..How can the Globe be ever warm if CO2 drove the temperatures?…Hmm fishy question..

It is like this. Any person with the basic knowledge I had in Chemistry knows that CO2 dissolves in water. A little extra knowledge (which i fortunately had when I watched the movie) would tell you that, when the temperature increases, the solubility decreases. The ocean carries a tremendous amount of CO2 dissolved in its waters. Armed with this bit of knowledge, my problem was, whenever the earth warmed, more CO2 would be released and more CO2 would mean more Greenhouse effect and higher temperature. Then once more the High temperature will increase the CO2 percentage….the cycle will go on and on…until…????….yes until when?

If actually CO2 is such a major contributor of Global warming, then the earth will be really really hot that it won’t support any life to actually absorb any of the CO2…

So I was wondering what is the truth…?.. Actually there IS a correlation between the Temperature and the CO2…but actually the high temperature only caused the high CO2 percentage…so we’ve grabbed the tail rather than the head…oops!!..

Then I questioned..what drives the Temperature?..A rational investigation proved that there are more than ONE factor…but mainly it is the sun..then cosmic rays..The amount of sun’s rays hitting the sun due to patterns in the orbit of the earth, the tilt of the earth, the changes in the wabble… and also Greenhouse effect ( mainly caused by water vapour)

So after some digging up I realized that, chasing after carbon is just a one crazy ride…and I decided to stay behind…There are other things where we can put that effort on and bring serious change…

But i’ll bet that if within several years the global temperature should fall down suddenly due to a new twist in solar activity..there will be many who’ll be willing to take the credit…

~ by Sachith on 7 May, 2008.