Global Warming: What do we do?
November 7, 2007: I’m thrilled at the amount of awareness and concern there is on the issue of Global Warming. And I am delighted that Al Gore and Dr R K Pachauri won the Nobel Prize, as they have brought an enormous amount of global awareness to this cause with the movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and the IPCC’s report. However, I’m also alarmed at how much our thinking gets tripped up by petty technicalities, political ideologies and ego tussles. Some of us seem to believe that this entire Global Warming thing is a scare, a shibboleth, an urban myth motivated by faulty science, bad politicians, crackpot activists and sloppy journalists who don’t check their facts. This particular post is not intended for people who hold this opinion. This post is intended for those who believe that our collective burning of hydrocarbon fuels has brought us to a grave situation, and are wondering what mitigating responses would make a meaningful difference without be...