On Climate Change

A great standing debate of our age is the reality and nature of climate change. Scientists debating about it, are now being labeled as either deniers or believers. But to me this is not an issue of denying or believing like it's an issue of Faith. So, I prefer to refer to them as either proponents or skeptics. of climate change. The proponents now holds the consensus and the attention of the UN.

Proponents of global warming holds that man made Co2 is the cause of the warming that started in the mid 70's. Skeptics on the other hand while agreeing that the global temperature is rising, are disagreeing on the cause. They say that is something more natural and not man made.

I first heard about the global warming issue while in high school. One of my teachers even explained the behavior of Co2 using an old nursery rhyme which goes - "Pataas! Pababa! Paikot-ikot pa"

But I never really bothered to look deeper until I saw that famous film by Al Gore.
The "An Inconvenient Truth" has been a successful propaganda film for the proponents, or at least to me.

I never really doubted the film, to me it was convincing. Not until another film came up in response for the side of the skeptics. The film "The Great Global Warming Swindle" also brought good points about the issue to my attention.
[Please find and watch both films I embedded below]

As a young kid,  I made myself interested about of incoming typhoons - wind speeds, locations and directions. I read about it in books and I remember always listening to the radio and watching TV weather reports from the weather report icon Ernie Baron, whenever there is one coming.

If you would notice, the most destructive typhoons are almost all happening in the past recent decade. Hotter days and hotter nights have become more frequent even climate in Baguio City which used to be cooler have never been the same. Extreme weather events have also occurred more frequently since the 1980's. These include deadly and damaging typhoons, floods, landslides, severe El Niño(abnomal warming of the Pacific waters) and La Niña(opposite of El Nino) events. A few case in point are Pepeng(2009), Pedring (2011), Sendong (2012) and who could forget Ondoy (2009). All of them has caused billions worth of destruction if not lost of lives. And while 1st world countries are in the  front line on the research, as a local response Deparnment of Energy has a Presidential Task Force on Climate Change, which i think focuses more on the local economic/agricultural effects of the issue.