We had 12 inches of snow last night, a superb sign of the winter to come. Everybody in the office ran home at 12pm on Thursday. I was lucky to get out and reach home just before the crazy Boston traffic started, but alas not everyone else was that lucky. It took my manager 7 hours to cover a distance of 10 miles, yes sir that exactly 10mi/hr and another co-worker 6 hours to cover 15 miles, that works out to 2.5/hr which probably works out to a new record on the Masspike. I just can’t imagine myself being stuck inmy car for that periods of time. Now c’mon how long can you listen to the radio or think about what you would like to eat for your next meal!!.
The news also reported that a lot of cars were stuck on the highways because they ran out of gas, wow how crazy is that. If that had happened to me I would a have just left my car wherever it was standing and just walked home. Well maybe not, considering my car would have been towed and I would have to walk through miles of blowing snow. Hmm talking about the snow, I have pretty much got used to dealing with the snow by now, having spent all my years in the America in the snow states, but I guess this was the first time that I have experienced such a major storm during the second week of December. Actually it was my wife who mentioned this to me, and it struck me to be true and she jokingly mentioned that probably the cause of this early winter storm was global warming, I laughed at the idea at first, but a local news channel was also kind of hinting at the same idea, and it suddenly struck me how in today’s media we tend to blame a lot of the world’s problems on global warming. If summer’s are too hot it’s global warming, if there is a winter storm it’s global warming, drought in Georgia it’s global warming and of course falling wheat production across the world is a result of, you know what , right GLOBAL WARMING. Whether global warming is indeed the reason for all this “unnatural and supernatural” phenomenon is beyond my knowledge. I’m of course no climatologist to determine that, but as a simple engineer trying to make his living it just seems interesting how any weather related occurrences that has been happening across the globe are all related in some way or the other to global warming. As a person watching from the sidelines and reading the commentaries from the skeptics and proponents of the global warming theory I find it amazing how the media can get so locked into an issue and constantly convey the message to your brain irrespective of the facts of the issue. If global warming is indeed the cause of the today’s global problems and an unbiased set of facts are presented to the world to support this theory then I’m all for spending trillions of dollars to take care of the problem, but otherwise I just want the media to pipe down and report the true facts and stop pounding people’s brain with their own interpretation of skewed facts.
A lot of people out there might say that the proof supporting the fact that global warming is for real is exactly what the inter-governmental panel in climate change (IPCC) has been trying to say, but my contention is that why is it that we only hear the supporters of the warming theory and not the skeptics. You could then argue that there are no skeptics and the facts are firm. C’mon guys give me a break, there are as many skeptics of global warming as there are proponents, they are just not given a opportunity to voice their concern. This fact was highlighted very well by Glenn Beck on his show in CNN a couple of months back.
Personally I do think that the earth is warming, we all of know or rather feel I should say that the summers in our native Andhra are a lot more warmer now that they were when we were tiny tots, but whether the cause of this is humans or a natural warming cycle of the earth is still unclear to me. No media outlet has presented the facts in clear and plain English. You can point me to all the IPCC reports, but hey, frankly how many of us can actually understand all that mumbo jumbo in those reports. All I’m saying is that put the reports out in easy English, with plain facts and figures so that commoners like thee can understand and participate in our own little way to avoid future problems due to global warming. I think I have said enough on this issue for now, but I’m sure that I will be blogging a lot more on this issue as the debate gets more heated across the globe.
The news also reported that a lot of cars were stuck on the highways because they ran out of gas, wow how crazy is that. If that had happened to me I would a have just left my car wherever it was standing and just walked home. Well maybe not, considering my car would have been towed and I would have to walk through miles of blowing snow. Hmm talking about the snow, I have pretty much got used to dealing with the snow by now, having spent all my years in the America in the snow states, but I guess this was the first time that I have experienced such a major storm during the second week of December. Actually it was my wife who mentioned this to me, and it struck me to be true and she jokingly mentioned that probably the cause of this early winter storm was global warming, I laughed at the idea at first, but a local news channel was also kind of hinting at the same idea, and it suddenly struck me how in today’s media we tend to blame a lot of the world’s problems on global warming. If summer’s are too hot it’s global warming, if there is a winter storm it’s global warming, drought in Georgia it’s global warming and of course falling wheat production across the world is a result of, you know what , right GLOBAL WARMING. Whether global warming is indeed the reason for all this “unnatural and supernatural” phenomenon is beyond my knowledge. I’m of course no climatologist to determine that, but as a simple engineer trying to make his living it just seems interesting how any weather related occurrences that has been happening across the globe are all related in some way or the other to global warming. As a person watching from the sidelines and reading the commentaries from the skeptics and proponents of the global warming theory I find it amazing how the media can get so locked into an issue and constantly convey the message to your brain irrespective of the facts of the issue. If global warming is indeed the cause of the today’s global problems and an unbiased set of facts are presented to the world to support this theory then I’m all for spending trillions of dollars to take care of the problem, but otherwise I just want the media to pipe down and report the true facts and stop pounding people’s brain with their own interpretation of skewed facts.
A lot of people out there might say that the proof supporting the fact that global warming is for real is exactly what the inter-governmental panel in climate change (IPCC) has been trying to say, but my contention is that why is it that we only hear the supporters of the warming theory and not the skeptics. You could then argue that there are no skeptics and the facts are firm. C’mon guys give me a break, there are as many skeptics of global warming as there are proponents, they are just not given a opportunity to voice their concern. This fact was highlighted very well by Glenn Beck on his show in CNN a couple of months back.
Personally I do think that the earth is warming, we all of know or rather feel I should say that the summers in our native Andhra are a lot more warmer now that they were when we were tiny tots, but whether the cause of this is humans or a natural warming cycle of the earth is still unclear to me. No media outlet has presented the facts in clear and plain English. You can point me to all the IPCC reports, but hey, frankly how many of us can actually understand all that mumbo jumbo in those reports. All I’m saying is that put the reports out in easy English, with plain facts and figures so that commoners like thee can understand and participate in our own little way to avoid future problems due to global warming. I think I have said enough on this issue for now, but I’m sure that I will be blogging a lot more on this issue as the debate gets more heated across the globe.
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