Climate change is divisive. While most conservatives tend to be skeptical of the dangers of climate change, most liberals tend to exaggerate them.
Within the scientific community too, a plethora of scientists believe the current change in climate is not unprecedented. Their opinion stands in stark contrast to opinions held by scientists who head the climate policy making bodies at the United Nations.
Friends are no exception. Recently, a friend told me that climate change’s impact is very severe in developing agrarian countries like India.
He suggested that everyday observations of drought and inadequate rainfall are so compelling that the dangers of climate change don’t have to be validated exclusively by peer-reviewed scientific journals.
But is that so?
I have covered the scientific perspective against exaggerated dangers of climate change in several of my recent articles. Here I would like to bring to light the reality of climate change at grassroot levels, without the aid of peer-reviewed journals.
Last year, farmers from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu held an attention-seeking protest and fast in the country’s capital, Delhi.
The farmers, enraged by the drought of 2016 (an El Niño year), protested against the lack of empathy shown by the neighbouring states, which have long refused to share dam water.
Fast forward two years, and the situation is completely different.
The same state that refused to share water with these farmers is now in a situation where it has no option but to release water from its overflowing dams. The monsoon this year has been very healthy, and the dams all along the West coast of India are filling fast, with some already full.
Local farmers here in the traditional agricultural plains of the Kongu region (with a population of nearly 24 million) tell me that they have enough water for the next 5 months. And that timeline is based on just the rainfall received until the week of July 1.
The monsoon season still has 50 days, and the Indian Meteorological Departments has forecasted average summer monsoon season this year. Moreover, the pre-monsoon rains in Southern India provided the much-needed water for regions that generally do not receive rainfall from the monsoons.
Surely, climate alarmists’ predictions of drought are not coming to pass this year. In fact, recent studies indicate that the monsoon rainfall over Indian peninsula has increased since 2002.
While there may be occasional years of extreme droughts driven by El Niño (like the one in 2016), the country is likely to experience average monsoon seasons in the near future.
It is impossible to predict what lies ahead. But there is no evidence of climate change putting the brakes on the Indian agricultural juggernaut.
There have been hundreds of news articles in the Indian media about how climate change has caused unprecedented droughts in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.
But the same media are unwilling to acknowledge how the reality of a normal monsoon season invalidates the exaggerated claims of climate change induced droughts.
The same is true in the United States, where the liberal media hijacked the recent hurricanes to promote a false notion that climate change is causing more, and stronger, hurricanes striking the U.S. mainland. In reality, hurricane frequency has fallen compared to previous decades.
The climate alarmists have used anomalies in every natural phenomenon as grounds to promote their claims of exaggerated dangers from exaggerated climate change.
If they don’t use caution, your neighbours and colleagues (like my friend), consuming these ideas from mainstream media, will ending up believing climate doomsday is upon us.
It is time to give them a wake-up call. Even if we fail to do so, Nature itself will catch up with them.
Originally published on The Christian Post.
Featured photo by reza shayestehpour on Unsplash.
louis wachsmuth says
“Climate change is supercharging a hot and dangerous summer”By Joel Achenbach and Angela FritzJuly 26 WASHINGTON POST. I hate to tell you people this but these articles in major news sources are making your essays pretty silly. Do you still believe that mankind’s activities have little effect on the environment? You had better talk to the thousands of field scientists all over the world who are actually making measurements…..”In the town of Sodankyla, Finland, the thermometer on July 17 registered a record-breaking 90 degrees, a remarkable figure given that Sodankyla is 59 miles north of the Arctic Circle, in a region known for winter snowmobiling and an abundance of reindeer.
This is a hot, strange and dangerous summer across the planet.
Greece is in mourning after scorching heat and high winds fueled wildfires that have killed more than 80 people. Japan recorded its highest temperature in history, 106 degrees, in a heat wave that killed 65 people in a week and hospitalized 22,000, shortly after catastrophic flooding killed 200.”
Cornwall can’t keep creating graphs with wiggly lines to “prove” no global warming.
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Vijay Raj Jayaraj says
Are you in India studying the rainfall? No. Are you a farmer in India who knows the amount of rainfall that is needed for one year of agriculture? No. Have you talked to scientists on ground here in India? No.
I don’t see one point in your comment about Indian Monsoon. My article was essentially about that. And I have given links to academic journals substantiating my claims about improving monsoons. But I see what you like doing.
louis wachsmuth says
The Coming Thunder of the Climate Change Voter By William Rivers Pitt Truthout. “There is a terrible desperation to the increasingly pathetic rationalizations from the climate denial camp…Japan and Korea are suffering unprecedented heat waves. Laos, Algeria, Greenland, Oman… there are bad records being set virtually everywhere on the map. Smoke from wildfires in Siberia made it all the way to my front porch in New Hampshire, and Sweden recently called for help because there are more massive wildfires burning out of control to the north of the Arctic Circle….. In all those years, I have never, ever experienced as many pounding, vicious tropical downpours as I have this summer, and it’s barely August. I watched shingles getting blasted off my neighbor’s roof the other day by a microburst that came roaring out of the maelstrom during maybe the 25th thunderdump flood-bomb we’ve seen in the last few weeks alone. This past March, we got cracked with three howling Nor’easters in the span of 11 days, with a fourth that followed soon after. Again, unprecedented in my experience. We’re not on fire here — these wildly uncharacteristic monsoon rains put that possibility snugly to bed — but there’s nothing at all normal about this. This isn’t the Amazon rainforest. It’s not even North Alabama. It’s not the North Pole, either. This is New England, and I have never seen the like. There is too much water in the atmosphere, and it is coming down hard.” You people know the truth but still choose to live in a myth. As the events become worse, at what point will Cornwall admit error?