Everyone is talking these days about Global Warming and the imminent disaster that is related with the concept. Those who advocate this concept totally rule out any skepticism whatsoever associated with it. Especially the future of Antarctica has become a matter of concern for the supporters of Global Warming.
The main idea which sends chills down the spines of those who recognize Global Warming as a major threat is that the polar ice caps are melting very rapidly due to this phenomenon and that this will eventually result in an increase in sea levels globally, and the consequential feared flooding of the major coastline areas of the world. Such a cataclysmic event is feared to leave millions of people killed and homeless.
The people who are making these claims are primarily scientists. These scientists have been monitoring the climatic and environmental conditions of the planet since decades now. Their efforts were originally more intended to learn about the meteorological and seismological phenomena of the planet in order to predict storms, earthquakes and other sever weather phenomena and natural disasters.
However, these studies enabled the scientists to observe the trends of rising temperatures of the planet, the relation of Greenhouse gases with it, the melting of polar ice caps and the rising sea levels. All these findings led them to believe that with the rate it was happening, disaster was the only fate which awaited our planet.
The only cause that the scientists could figure out for these alarming changes to the planet, which potentially jeopardized the future of human life on Earth, was Global Warming and the emission of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The Greenhouse gases, which are being emitted everyday through the burning of fossil fuels and other industrial and chemical emissions, cause the sunlight to be trapped inside the atmosphere of the earth, which eventually causes a rise in the temperature. But people know very little about these theories, which are almost dictated to them by the scientists.
Although it is an accepted fact that Antarctica and other polar masses are melting and that their size appears to have been reduced ever since the scientists have started making observations about them, but such assumptions are not actually accurate.
However saying anything certain about the issue on the basis of measurements for a relatively shorter period of time, in the life of a 4.5 billion years old planet, is not possible. The trends, which concern scientists and those who warn of the potential threats of Global Warming, may just as well be natural cycles which are much greater in their cycle of action, than the time span of these measurements.
Our knowledge about phenomena like the melting of the ice caps at Antarctica and Global Warming is more limited than we actually think. So we should not freak ourselves out over the Global Warming issue and should relax, while being as careful about the environment as we can at the same time.
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