Musings of a modern guy

Imagine the power of the automotive industry. For 32 years, Congress has not imposed a new auto efficiency mandate, and the last one had set the limit in a different era. In that much time, one would have expected the industry to have got more efficient, and produce vehicles that use much less gas. This [...]

More of an alarming headline, but whenever people talk about global warming, they talk about it happening in a decade or more, or maybe later in this century, but not right now. And doubters keep on asking for solid proof, talking about temperature warming being a cycle, and we being in the midst of such [...]

Global warming is something that a significant majority of experts are now predicting as something that is starting to show its effects, and that the changes so far are just a preview of the major changes that are predicted to happen. The problem being that the world weather pattern is so complex to simulate and [...]

Climate change is becoming a very hot topic politically. Earlier, it used to be that scientists were only speaking about it, and there would be a lot of doubt in terms of whether this was another theory that can be disproved later, and once can’t really make major changes in lifestyle just because of theory.
Now, [...]

The US administration has in the past refused to acknowledge that global warming is caused by human intervention. The science for this is fairly consistent, and believed by a wide cross-section of scientists. There are of course a small section of scientists who do not yet see a direct link and believe that any global [...]

In a disturbing pointer to the impact of global warming, a massive ice shelf has broken loose in Canada. Read more about the story here. This ice shelf was the size of 11,000 football fields and has been there for a long time.
This situation has led to a lot of unease among researchers as they [...]