Controversial Topics, Facts of Global Warming

The Supreme Court of India, which is the apex court of this country, held the stay on the mining operations of the French Company Lafarge in a recent judgement. Lafarge had till now not obtained any Environmental Impact Assessment or EIA. The cement company’s mining operations for limestone in the forests of Meghalaya was put under a stay because of environmental concerns. As per some news reports, the Shella Action Committee, which is a body of villagers, had argued that the Lafarge Project in the Meghalaya Forests was fraudulent in more ways than one. This multinational company had obtained a false description of the land acquired for mining as barren when it was actually a dense forest. Lafarge had offered compensation for afforestation but EIA clearance has been declared as a must in the judgement by the Supreme Court of India. Environmentalists at some places are also demanding that the government curb the increasing number of brick making units and unscientific  [...]

Regardless of scientific compromises on the subject, some people think global warming is just a myth. There are quite a few reasons for this: They do not believe that data show a calculable growing trend within global temperatures, moreover because which we do not have long-term historical clime data to analysis or the data we do contain is unclear. There are few scientists who think that data is not interpreted correctly by people who are already apprehensive concerning global warming. Instead of looking over the issue objectively and understand its changes, these people are trying find statistic evidence to prove global warming phenomena. Few people debate that changes in the global temperatures, we are seeing could be a natural atmosphere change, or could be causing because of other factors than greenhouse effect gases.

As per reports, Nuclear Energy provides about 11 to 18 per cent of electricity in the world… India has plans to expand its ties with Russia over defense and nuclear energy sector as per news reports… Israel and Syria too are dreaming of nuclear energy and earlier this month announced their intention to use nuclear energy for electricity generation… Australia, a country with rich supply of Uranium, has contracts with growing economies like India and China to meet their needs for Uranium for Nuclear Plants and energy demands… Clearly, growing energy demands are pressing the need for resources and climate change demands clean sources of energy.  Then there are international obligations to reduce carbon emissions within a given deadline. As a result, Nuclear energy is being looked at a viable and alternate source of energy to fossil fuels… considering the carbon-emission level from nuclear plants is almost nil or zero. Nevertheless, in the race to be called a Nuclear Power…  [...]

While there are reports of melting glaciers, the dramatic changes in the weather pattern are evident throughout the world, temperatures are rising, there are new forms of diseases emerging everywhere out of the blue and eco-systems are getting disturbed, we have people who think that there is no such thing as global warming. They consider global warming a myth made to be true by a hype that few scientists and the media have created. If this group does accept that global warming exists, they add that there are no serious issues that one needs to be concerned about nor is there any need to be alert about it. This group also regards global warming as a natural process and says that there are not human beings are certainly not responsible for the same. While they dismiss the concept of global warming as a myth, the other group which is more alert than ever before about environmental issues, say that the former group is in a state of denial. This debate  [...]