Global
Warming – Much ado about nothing?
Chemistry World – a magazine of the Royal Chemical Society
in its March
2005 edition, page 13, informed that the furor
that was being created over global warming was an
exaggeration. The computer modeling that forecasts the
doomsday was not entirely without flaws. Scientific
Alliance, an organization of scientists in the West, was of
the
opinion that the bogey of global warming was used as a
ploy by the vested interests to extract more money for
research work in this field.
David Belamy, professor of Botany of the University of
Nottingham said that it was not true that the quantity of
CO2 in the atmosphere caused excessive global warming.
Professor Richard Lintgen of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology was of the opinion that the
ambient temperature
was raised in direct logarithmic proportion to the increase
in CO2 content of the atmosphere. That meant that if CO2
increased 100 fold, the ambient would grow by twice only.
Prof. Lingen also pointed out that if man made CO2 was
responsible for global warming then it should have
increased at least six times of the actual rise of 0.76
degree Celsius in the last century. Fred Singer, President
of the World Science and Environmental Policy Project was
also of an identical opinion. He termed a forecast that
ambient temperature would rise by 11 degree Celsius in
future as a simple nonsense.
The sea level had risen by 120 m in the last 18,000 years.
Initially the rate of rise was faster but it slowed down to
about 20 cm per 100 years towards the end. Prof. Morenar of
the University of Stockholm found out that since 1800 A.D.
the sea level has been rising on the average of 1.1 mm per
year. The interesting finding was that the sea level
actually came down by 20 to 30 cm from 1970 to 1975. There
has not been any change in sea level since then.
The fear of Global Warming was generated since all the
available data were not taken into consideration before
coming to a conclusion, whether willfully or not was the
question.