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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Enviormental Science Assignment

Global Warming : A Myth Or Reality

Author: Debajyoti Nandy

Roll No: 100100073

In this article I will be discussing about the global warming which has become a very important topic among the leading scientists and the common people as well. As portrayed by many researchers of various elds,global warming is mainly the increase in average temperature of the environment of earth,which is expected to be very much dangerous and harmful to the life on earth. Many people has various viewpoints towards this issue and after watching the two videos on global warming which have completely opposite viewpoints, I will try to describe my own understandings and conclusions regarding the global warming in this article. As depicted in the movie An Inconvenient Truth,there can be devastating consequences of the increase in average temperature of the world. There can be many uctuations in the weather of various places, mainly in coastal regions such as Central America, Japan, etc. due to global temperature increase and its eect on ocean currents. But before concluding about the reasons and blaming the human activities for these calamities, we should try to understand what are the natural factors behind this and compare them with the factors introduced by human activities. As correctly depicted in the movie The Great Global Warming Swindle the natural factors aecting the temperature of the earth are far more powerful than the factors created by human activities. I will try to back this viewpoint by rst listing out the factors which are aecting the temperature change and are mainly controlled by humans.These factors can be large number of industries giving out greenhouse gases in a large amount, vehicles driven by us which emits greenhouse gases, rapidly increasing rate of populations which contributes in the major chunk of articial Carbon dioxide emission, cutting of trees and vegetations which were supposed to maintain the balance of Carbon dioxide and Oxygen in the air. These are the major factors which increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the air and are being controlled by the human activities. Now I will try to list the natural factors contributing to the amount of greenhouse gases in the air. Gases regularly being emitted by volcanoes, Carbon dioxide being emitted by the trees during night and most importantly the huge amount of life inside the ocean emits Carbon dioxide as well and this denitely is not a small amount as only 30% of earths surface is covered in land and 70% is water and inside the huge ocean there are many known, unknown living beings who gives away Carbon dioxide. These amount of greenhouse gases which cannot be controlled by humans are not at all small compared to the greenhouse gas contribution by human activities. Another important factor mentioned in the moive The Great Global Warming Swindle is the role of the Sun in controlling the temperature of the earth. This doesnt need any proof that Sun can control the average temperature of the earth where all the seasons in a year are being controlled by the Sun. So the uctuations on the surface on sun can largely eect our environment, not only by raising temperature but by many other means of radiation as well. So my argument is that the amount of greenhouse gases are somewhat controlled by the human activities but mainly controlled by natural activities on earth and without considering the eect of greenhouse gases, temperature of earth itself is being controlled by the fulctuations in the radiation of the Sun which are due to solar ares. There has been many predictions about the solar ares and the prediction of scientists were that the solar ares would reach their peak intensity in 2013 starting from the middle of 2012. If we try to interpret the recent data, we can easily visualise and feel the raise in average temperature and uctuations in the time periods of seasons in dierent parts of the world which can only 1

be reasoned by solar ares. This is the proof which enables us to conclude the radiation uctuations on the surface of the Sun as the most important parameter for the average temperature of the earth. So according to my understanding and by the presented data, predictions in both the movies, my conclusion would be that major reason in the global temperature increase or global warming is the natural causes such as solar ares of the Sun and human activities have very liitle contribution to the global warming. But I would like to address another issue which is also environmental and mainly controlled by human activities and at the same time dangerous and harmful like global warming. In the above descriptions I have depicted my deniel of considering the Carbon dioxide emission by human activities to be the major reason of global warming but that completely doesnt mean that I am not against the unnecessary emission of harmful gases by the industries and vehicles. These harmful gases includes oxides of Sulphur(SOx), Nitrogen(NOx), Ammonia, unburnt fuel which are very harmful for human body and can make permanent damage to lungs and respiratory system. Even for other animals and plants these gases are very harmful. In the industrial places concentration of these gases and Carbon dioxide is very high which can cause breathing problem and not only temporary problems but permanent problems of body parts as well. The waste materials from the industries creates soil polution which directly eects our food that we take. So this is completely unjustied to emit these poisonous gases and wastes in an uncontrolled manner. In the later part of this article I will try to express my views regarding the monetary issues regarding global warming and actually what should be done. Another issue was rightly pointed out in the movie The Great Global Warming Swindle which is the investment of huge amount of money in development of new technologies and implementation of other eco-friendly standards to reduce the emission of Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Accroding to me the motto should be to reduce the amount of these gases not because they are involved in global warming but because they are permanently creating damage and harmful diseases in human bodies. Plants are most helpful in this situation as there are several types of plants which reduces these gases from the environment by using them in their own biological processes. Acid rain, Smog and many other poisonous environmental damages are due to increase in the amount of these harmful gases. So accroding to me money should be invested to improve the technology and ltering processes in the industries and other sources of such gases. Its the responsibility of the media and other government bodies to remove the fear of global warming which is created by describing the devastating consequences of it. I certainly agree with whatever consequence is being predicted but all the parameters which corresponds to human activities should be removed and the predictions should be refreshed. On the other hand its their responsibility to show the actual harmful eects of industrialization, deforestation and inecient use of fuel, which has direct impact on human life. Finally I would like to conclude by saying that every human being on this planet should try to be as much ecient as possible in using the energy resources which is very important and I believe that reducing the pace of development by showing irrelevant and unjustied predictions about global warming is not at all acceptable, whereas ecient development should be encouraged which will lead our world to a stable and happily habitable place.

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