Is the phenomenon of global warming really that serious? Does it even exist? Do we even care? We answer all those questions and more...
That is not to discard the factuality that certain environmental changes are becoming more severe with each day passing. Global temperatures are surely on the rise. Incidences like Arctic shrinkage, Arctic methane release, and release of terrestrial carbon from permafrost regions are being observed. The sea level is rising at 0.2 cm/year. From 1961 to 2003, the global ocean temperatures have risen by 0.1°C. The temperature of the Antarctic Southern Ocean rose by 0.17°C (0.31°F) between the 1950s and the 1980s.
More dangerous implications include transnational migration of epidemics like malaria, plague. In addition, economic costs can be easily gauged from the example of the 1926 Miami hurricane which cost a whopping $157 billion. What is more appalling is that around 25 million people are estimated to have been displaced in the 1990s due to environmental changes; shockingly, the number is estimated to reach 150 million by the end of 2050 (as per the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). WHO reports that as of date, around 150,000 individuals are dying every year due to climate change.
If climate change is a realistic possibility, then the current response in the form of UN-FCCC seems too luxurious. While a country like China today accounts for 19% global emissions, India is not far behind. Yet, none of these countries seems open to a legally enforceable regulation that ensures that emitters fall in line – the argument being that while the developed countries have already exploited the world in the past so many years (and so have become developed), the developing countries still have their share of exploitation left to do. If that is the argument, we are all lost. For a start, so is the UN. They don’t even have a separate body looking after climate control...
That is not to discard the factuality that certain environmental changes are becoming more severe with each day passing. Global temperatures are surely on the rise. Incidences like Arctic shrinkage, Arctic methane release, and release of terrestrial carbon from permafrost regions are being observed. The sea level is rising at 0.2 cm/year. From 1961 to 2003, the global ocean temperatures have risen by 0.1°C. The temperature of the Antarctic Southern Ocean rose by 0.17°C (0.31°F) between the 1950s and the 1980s.
More dangerous implications include transnational migration of epidemics like malaria, plague. In addition, economic costs can be easily gauged from the example of the 1926 Miami hurricane which cost a whopping $157 billion. What is more appalling is that around 25 million people are estimated to have been displaced in the 1990s due to environmental changes; shockingly, the number is estimated to reach 150 million by the end of 2050 (as per the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). WHO reports that as of date, around 150,000 individuals are dying every year due to climate change.
If climate change is a realistic possibility, then the current response in the form of UN-FCCC seems too luxurious. While a country like China today accounts for 19% global emissions, India is not far behind. Yet, none of these countries seems open to a legally enforceable regulation that ensures that emitters fall in line – the argument being that while the developed countries have already exploited the world in the past so many years (and so have become developed), the developing countries still have their share of exploitation left to do. If that is the argument, we are all lost. For a start, so is the UN. They don’t even have a separate body looking after climate control...
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Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
Zee Business Best B-School Survey 2012
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
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