The global warming is on the agenda of the G8 Summit. So it's been taking very seriously in the current global political circle. But, Michael Crichton spent a few years resarch on this issue, and wrote "state of Fear" which listed vast among of data against global warming.
Honestly, I don't know what to believe.
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Science needs some motivation to move forward. Before, there were wars; now, there is Mother Nature. So long as human beings don't self-destruct and take the entire planet or even the solar system with along it before we found the solutions, a little fear is a good motivation.
Wondering whether global warming will have catastrophic consequences is like wondering whether obesity will kill you fairly soon.
And we all know how many REALLY FAT people are there in the U.S. of A.
The point is: is there really a global warming happening? In the book, it quotes a lot of research saying that while the ice in some part of the antiartic is melting, the ice is actually thickening in another part; the tempeature data showing a rising trend may be the hot island effect of modern cities; and some temp data collected from some other parts actually don't show any rising trend at all.....
I've asked the HK Observatory about this, and getting some reply. I've blogged it before.
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