Woo...3 exams down, 3 to go.

Anyhow, back to global warming. Initially I believed that global warming was a fact, however some of the opposing message leaked to me and I started to realise that I don't have all the facts to make a judgement. But neither do the politicians and certain TV/radio personalities.

Hollywood got the public all on an uproar about drastic climate changes (remember the 'Day After Tomorrow'? And then the right wing media (I'm thinking of a specific Glenn Beck episode where he basically insulted every single scientist who believed in global warming). So you got fanatics on both sides on the fence with this issue IMHO.

BUT, while global warming may affect the global population by a few degrees, possibly wiping out some cities due to iceburgs melting, etc., I can say for a fact that smog and emissions will affect you. Take for example two cities: Karachi and Bombay (Mumbai). When I last visited both those cities, I immediately found it harder to breath there. The smog is so intense, that if a wall was painted white, within a year it would be dark gray to black. Some of you are thinking that these two cities are in third world countries, so the problem would never happen here. WRONG, in Toronto, smog warnings increase every decade. A 100 years ago, there was no such thing, 2 decades ago, it was a rare occurance, the last few summers, it has been more common to a point being accepted. A smog day means a harder day for those with Asma, it means that if it continues like this, industrialized cities won't look a lot different from Bombay and Karachi.

Reducing emissions may not really change the global patterns, but if a community bands together, they can help themselves.

Besides, why not recycle? Why not change your lightbulbs to the more energy efficient ones? My university unfortunately refuses to spend money to do those things, even though the payback (for their usage) would be only in a few years. It's cheaper to cut down on power usage using energy efficient technology then producing more power, which you the consumers end up paying.