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| Title: | 'Global warming' - the other side of the coin : the feebily trumpeted positive effects of climate change |
| Authors: | Tiwary, Shreeman Narayan
Dubey, Sushma
Tripathi, Prem Shankar Mani |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | The issue of global warming and the
consequential world-wide climate change has been the one which has attracted a
great deal of media interest, and a scientific enigma for many years. Much has
been made of the negative impacts of this phenomenon to our planet, but little
has been said of the positive impacts. In the present article, after briefly
mentioning the basic facts of global warming and its effects, the optimists’
view that “global warming may be coming, but if it does, it won’t necessarily
be extreme, meriting panic. And, in fact, it might
well be a boon for the environment” has been
elaborated critically, in the backdrop of “Medieval Climate Optimum”. The
positive effects and the ‘silver linings’ of global warming are compared with
the negative impacts and predicted catastrophic consequences of the global
warming and the resulting worldwide climate change. From the comparison, it
manifests that, the negative impacts of global warming and consequential
climate change, which are based on the accurate climatic and scientific data
and reliable predictive computer models, cannot be simply ignored. In fact, the
negative far outweigh the positives. Thus, the scale of the balance seems to be
heavily tilted in favours of negative impacts, which will seemingly prevail. In
the present scenario, it seems that the best thing would be to “Hope for the
best, plan for the worst and prepare and take all effective measures to combat
global warming”. |
| Page(s): | 115-124 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-2412 (Online); 0771-7706 (Print) |
| Source: | BVAAP Vol.19(2) [December 2011]
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