Tag: Global Warming

The Negative Impact of Economic Growth

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Recent global recessions have led to a race between competing economies. The competition gets more challenging as a bottleneck phenomenon occurs, ousting the weaker economies to make way for the stronger ones. This economic frenzy occurs as economies worldwide struggle to attain stronghold in dire attempts to revive their economies. Sadly, like everything else, economic growth comes with a price.

The price we have to pay this time; is a pretty big one. It affects our present and future. It could even affect the existence of our species. It is perhaps the biggest reality we try to avoid – global warming. A thought provoking article was released by Science Daily. It informs us that new research ascertains that one of the most obvious ways to slow down global warming is in fact to decrease the rate at which the global economy is growing – either that or possibly revamp the… Continue reading →

Is Global Warming an actual threat?

Posted on by skeptik@l

Over the past century, leaders and environmentalists of all over the world have expressed concerns about our dying Earth. Due to the advancements of technology and globalization, private businesses have thrived resulting to the alarming amount of resources being extracted from Mother Earth. Multinational corporations are killing our planet they told us. We are the reason for the Earth’s drastic increase in temperature they warned us. The ice-caps are melting they lamented.  But is this all really true?

Atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer confirmed that there is absolutely no proof and evidence indicating that the current warming of the planet is directly linked to the rise of greenhouse gases from human actions. Instead, he suggests that
“The best evidence supporting natural causes of temperature fluctuations are the changes in cloudiness, which correspond strongly with regular variations in solar activity. The current warming is likely part of Continue reading →

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