On the flip side, for half baked people like me getting tossed up by too many and often too conflicting hypothesis with clear convincing justification from different reliable and respectable sources causes more confusion than clarity.
For example I
happen to attend three years back a 3 day International Astro science fair with
some interesting exhibits and conferences at Coimbatore along with my daughter
and it had lectures given by top scientists from NASA the main participant, DRDO, ISRO, BABA atomic research center and TATA
observatories etc. We attended some of the programs and lectures.
Some top Indian scientists too accompanied me; in fact I stay
only in their houses whenever I go to Coimbatore to brush up some unbiased
opinions in science's hot topics.
One NASA scientist, who gave a nice speech with lots of
slides, was emphasizing a lot about release of gases from cow dung making a
huge impact on environment and adding to global warming. One scientist got up
and asked during question hour. "What is the data of population of cow on
earth, quantity of cow dung, how it is kept and where or how it is disposed
off? Have you measured the gas emanating from them collectively even if all of
it were measured? have you ever noticed, researched scientifically more
dangerous and damaging gases released for centuries together from decaying
flora and fauna from, fortunately still some virginal, areas like some parts of
Amazon forests, some in Zaire, even some parts of Western Ghats in India, some
areas in Assam and some forest lands in South America etc?" The scientist
from NASA just shrugged his shoulders. So, I am also led to believe some parts
of what is contained here too, a web site I read on a regular basis.
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/globalwarming13sep06.shtml
[© Copyright 2006-2007 Educate-Yourself.org All Rights Reserved]
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/globalwarming13sep06.shtml
[© Copyright 2006-2007 Educate-Yourself.org All Rights Reserved]
My contention is that I would not like to succumb to varying
degrees of ignorance nor led by predetermined publicity programs masked under
the garb of science and marketed with massive jargon, nor can I afford to be
indifferent to whatever is happening in nature and happening to nature either
as part of evolutionary poetry or perpetrated damage by human greed and need
for resources at the expense of so many things. Nor would I like to take any stand on any confirmation bias. However, on observation of nature, at least
around me, in the region where I live, I can see massive and marked changes
with balding green tops of earth leading to shining concrete structures [I am
not saying either right or wrong], visible disappearance of or diminishing
quantity of many varieties of vegetables, fruits, birds etc. why the small
sparrows which used to line up the window at Chennai have almost disappeared
[we are told it is due to mobile phone towers]. Does anyone talk about one
species going extinct right in front of our eyes or can anyone do anything
about it if at all they can?
UN’s Mother Earth Day April
22nd 2013-Why?
URBANISATION MANIA CAUSES EL NINO
LIFE WILL CONTINUE ALWAYS NO DOOMSDAY
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