Oh climate my warming..

Oh climate my warming


In the beginning there was global warming, a political and media discourse about the rising temperature of the planet, one that according to "some" scientists is a phenomena that is happening since the 19th century and only from 1960's the greenhouse effect is tied to it. Nevertheless the overall increase is of 1º C.

If one would want to browse documents and scientific papers, there is a high enough probability that the findings would steer the viewer towards an opposite direction and cry out that the end is nigh and CO2 emissions are to blame, men is destroying the planet and let's throw money into it and solve all the world's problems just like that.

And then, just like atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen points out, there is another group of people that are the centre of this controversy. The politicians and the ever more irresponsible media. Both are out for the same thing which is power, money and notoriety.

Is mankind polluting this planet? For sure. Should we stop and look for more efficient and sustainable ways of doing anything to avoid a disaster? Another easy answer. Are we increasing the risk of mixing up so many different angles that in the name of simplification, we will miss out on the truth? It is beginning to seem a lot like that.

Climate change/ global warming has been a discourse that blames everything and every turn without a certainty. However, in the name of fear, greed and power hunger, the CO2 tax was created even though the absolute proof of harm isn't anywhere to be found. And here is the real problem, one that is present in almost everything these days and one only need to look at the recent hysteria of the Covid-19 in order to see it.

Poor and unreliable information and no demand for it. The bandwagon of fear is a the top before knowledge and research that is deserving of its name.

We are in 2020 and there is still a war on the truth with both sides of the barricade claiming to know more than the other. It would seem better for all of us if were actually more concerned in finding out what is going on instead of screaming that we already do, when it is clear that it isn't the case. But we need to. We need to know. We need to want to know. And we need to demand it, or else we are doomed to be divided in Facebook videos that regurgitate our "facts" at the behest of our poor informed biases.

And greed wins.