Wet wet time or it is warming?
As I write this, somewhere in Selangor, thunder is heard and lightning is seen, outside. Pitter-patter of faint raindrops turn to thud-thud of dense rain drops.I do not recall the weather being this wet last year. Frankly speaking, it has been raining daily since mid-October. I know as I tend to notice the wet weather as it is almost the year end and this sort of climate brings back nostalgic, fleeting thoughts of an era past, in a far and distant land.
Back in the fall of 2005, Hurricane Rita, the fifth major hurricane of the 2005 season, made landfall in Texas just as I touched down in Los Angeles.I could see anxiety and fear were on the faces fn everyone around me as memories of Katrina surfaced from within.
Is our strange climatic behavior a symptom of global warming(GW)? I am in the midst of reading Ian Wishart's Air Con, The Seriously Inconvenient Truth about Global Warming, an it is turning my ideas and understanding of GW topsy turvy. Here is a couple of facts: The 2005 CO2 level are at 379 parts per million(ppm). We are about 240 years after the beginning of the industrial revolution, which James Watt invented the first steam engine in 1765. Early in the Paleozoic era, which began about 600,000,000 years ago, atmospheric levels of CO2 has been pegged at a whopping 7000 ppm!. What gives? What cars did the pre-historic creatures drive back then? Something is happening and we need to investigate what is happening here.
posted by Ir. Tejinder Singh @ 12:15 AM
