Al Gore (left) and green activists protest George’s doublespeak (right)

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Well, everybody’s heard about the melting glaciers ad nauseum, and nothing seems to have happened to our homes, right? So the first common question that comes to mind is, whether the issue is indeed so serious. The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has forecasted that average global temperatures would rise between 1.1% and 6.4% by 2100, that is, by around 30c by 2100. Fans of the Michael Crichton best-seller, State of Fear, which largely ridicules the green brigade, might say – “That’s it? We are worried about 3 degrees?!?” Well, this ‘minuscule’ 3 degrees is enough to put a whopping 4 billion people by that time at a serious risk of dangerous water shortage for starters, apart from ensuring that the severity of climate events would increase.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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