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		<title>Smoking N Choking out &#8230; Are we really???</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit Gawande</dc:creator>
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://elatedamit.blogspot.com/2007/06/smoking-n-choking-out.html"><img style="float:left;cursor:pointer;margin:0 10px 10px 0;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_12OSnRKdLTQ/RmZJg95wnAI/AAAAAAAAAHw/y2l-QIDxQ3U/s200/Global_Warming.gif" alt="sun and earth cartoon" border="0" /></a>Shave and bath sensibly? Walking even though you own a car? Use Recycle Bags? Switch to a small cars from SUV&#8217;s?</p>
<p>I have heard all these things a zillion times now. After all, the only answer my mind shouted was &#8220;Buddy, how does that matter. World&#8217;s not worried, let me be imperturbable on this too.&#8221; But then thought there are tons of other things i do perfunctory. To what extent does my following these things going to affect me. Not much really. So &#8230; Anyways what is this carbon footprint and why the damn i should care? Why Singapore is looked after as a place following well thought solutions? <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/42284/special-citizens-for-earth--be-one.html">IBN</a> does try and provide answers for these.</p>
<p>Indeed what the video tries to convey does seem quite convincing. But just when I was about to bend my mind to digest this all, I was struck with a thought. I wondered are we, the humans, only protagonists in the so called global warming saga? Does CO2 emission by human have a significant threat to our environment? Is there any such global warming threat being seen? Are predictions of climate change perfect and not a mere prejudice?  Is it proved by experts that we are causing global warming? Is global warming really that bad? Will the money-gulping efforts to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions really stop climate from changing? Further, aren&#8217;t they just bursting the state&#8217;s budget? Rather, shouldn&#8217;t money be flowing towards perennial and  pernicious threats? An <a href="http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=11548">article published in <span style="font-style:italic;">heartlander</span></a> does try and provide an answer to these all. What it concludes is to follow the call to the common sense and just put this &#8220;Global Warming&#8221; Scam to end.</p>
<p>Further the movie below tries and put this whole saga under the name &#8220;<span style="font-weight:bold;">a vested political interest creating panic</span>&#8221; to turn more money towards climate science. CO2 indeed has very little to do with the climate change. I do feel even this view of scientists at other side of this scam needs to be looked at before we go and follow the call for morality.</p>
<p>Then what is the path for me to follow? At the end, I find just trapped in yet another polemic. Unable to figure out, which way to lead myself!!!</div>
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