Climate Change and human evolution

The climate changes which we are witnessing today are assumed to be mainly due to the global warming caused by man-made activities. There are some recent evidences in various scientific forums in the internet (The environment site.org) to show that the presumption of the climate changes was due to GHG emissions and the resultant global warming is a hoax. New data challenges the above reasoning.

Some environmentalist has warned that the melting of the glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau would turn the Ganga and Yangtze rivers into seasonal rivers that dry up in summers and could eventually lead to unmanageable food shortages. The projections were based on the fact that China and India are the world’s leading producers of wheat and rice, the staple food for the billions. Glacier experts feel that loss of glaciers would take away a summertime source of river water, drinking water and hydroelectric power in populous, relatively poor places like South Asia and the cities along the western slope of the Andes.

There is a cyclic behavior seen in the natural events which are occurring over hundreds of years in the past. One can expect much more severe natural events in the future. In the event of any such catastrophe, “doomsday vault” was designed and is getting ready at Norway for inauguration. The vault (Svalbard Global Seed Vault), made up of three cold chambers each measuring 27 x 10 metres tunnel bored into the sandstone and limestone in a remote Arctic mountain, 1000 km from the North Pole. The facility has the capacity to hold up to 4.5 million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet’s main food crops. This will make it possible to reestablish the plants if they are destroyed by any major disasters.

Studies also have shown that the new human species were evolved over millions of years during which the climate was highly variable, such as formation and vanishing of giant lakes, periods of extreme heat, severe drought, etc.

In the name of carbon dioxide, let us not throttle the industrial revolutiion which is taking place in countries like India and China.