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Question

is global warming the sole reason for floods and famine in India or any country for that matter. please say your views with detailed explanation

Answer 1

because they "believe" instead of because it's factual.

here are some of the predictions i grew up with over the past 40 years:

famine
mass death
shifting of food production regions
climate change
overpopulation
global cooling
mass starvation
massive glaciers
uninhabitable places on earth
running out of fossil fuel
pollution physically altering man (through adaptation)

all this was supposed to happen by the year 2000, and if man didn't stop using fossil fuels. we had 30+ years of "irrefutable data" showing that man caused it too.

but we didn't stop, we used more!

STRANGELY, NOT ONE PREDICTION HAS CAME TRUE YET!

with this kind of track record how can anyone seriously "believe" global warming

Answer 2

Global warming is clearly not causing any of the current weather problems in India, or in any other nation. And this has nothing to do with whether the Earth is really warming or not, or whether that warming is caused by man or by some natural cause.

Floods and droughts happen every year, no matter what the global temperature is. As far as man can currently understand and predict these phenomena, they are completely random. Nobody on the planet has a computer program that will allow them to input a global temperature of x and predict that at a temperature of x, India will have 2 huge floods in the next coming year, but that if the temperature goes up to y, India will have 3 floods. The fact is that if the global temperature is x, India may have 1, 2, 3 floods, or none at all. Likewise, if the temperature is y, India may have 1, 2, or 3 floods, or none at all.

What global warming does is increase the ODDS of weather disasters. You might say that if the temperature is x, India has a 30% chance of a major flood, but that if the temperature is y, then it will have a 50% chance. So, you can never really point the finger at global warming and say that it caused this or that particular disaster...just that it MIGHT have helped cause it.

Answer 3

Famines can be exacerbated by poor governance or inadequate logistics for food distribution. Modern famines have often occurred in nations that, as a whole, were not initially suffering a shortage of food. One of the largest historical famines (proportional to the affected population) was the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1849, which began in 1845 and occurred as food was being shipped from Ireland to England because the English could afford to pay higher prices. The largest famine ever (in absolute terms) was the Chinese famine of 1958–61 that occurred as a result of the Great Leap Forward. In a similar manner, the 1973 famine in Ethiopia was concentrated in the Wollo region, although food was being shipped out of Wollo to the capital city of Addis Ababa where it could command higher prices. In contrast, at the same time that the citizens of the dictatorships of Ethiopia and Sudan had massive famines in the late-1970s and early-1980s, the democracies of Botswana and Zimbabwe avoided them, despite having worse drops in national food production. This was possible through the simple step of creating short-term employment for the worst-affected groups, thus ensuring a minimal amount of income to buy food, for the duration of the localized food disruption and was taken under criticism from opposition political parties and intense media coverage.

Because herding and agriculture allow for greater population, both in numbers and in density, the failure of a harvest or the change in conditions, such as drought, can create a situation whereby large numbers of people live where the carrying capacity of the land has dropped radically. Famine is then associated primarily with subsistence agriculture, that is, where most farming is aimed at producing enough food energy to survive. The total absence of agriculture in an economically-strong area does not cause famine; Arizona and other wealthy regions import the vast majority of their food.

Answer 4

One other reason for flooding is often tied to deforestation. (Cutting down of too many trees). Another can be poor maintenance of rivers and waterways. In the summer, when the waterways get dry, a thick vegetation is bound to grow inside the beds. If that is not taken care of, it will form a barrier when it begins to rain (or the snow melts on the mountains) and that is conducive to flooding.
As for famine in India and in many other Countries, the causes are almost endless. In India farmers are often overburdened with debts (for generations) and can not afford to buy the machinery which would help increase production. But this is only one of the many many many causes of famine.

Answer 5

There are so many reasons for these things to occur, some man made , some natural.
Floods in that area have been happening for ages, long before we came along.
Famine is proportional to the number of people who live there and how much food there isn't.
Global warming is often touted as the reason for this, and that we are the cause of gw, so ultimately it's our own fault.
Way too simple people; earth's climate and ecology is way too complicated for such simplistic hypotheses, there are too many variables to consider.
When we look at historical data, gross felling of trees does result in floods, this is proven, but we don't know if there is any relation to global warming in this.

Answer 6

Certainly not. In the past (up until 1978) the main reason was problems in the food distribution system, just getting the food where it was needed. Since then, the earth's population has outgrown the food supply. Distribution problems still exist, but starvation will occur anyway. Since Global Warming has made its effects felt, it has attacked both the population and the food supply. I would expect that the main effect will always be on the population. People will fight for food, but no one fights for the starving.

In the last few decades I have seen these predictions come true:


famine
mass death
shifting of food production regions
climate change
overpopulation
mass starvation
massive glaciers
uninhabitable places on earth
running out of fossil fuel


I have also seen predictions that did not come true made by 1 or 2 individuals who knew no more about it than the average man on the street. That would be things like this:

pollution physically altering man (through adaptation)
global cooling


If you allow yourself to be fooled by ideas like these, that would be your fault, not the fault of the person preying on your gullibility. Adaptation does not take place in one or two generations. Humans haven't physically changed in 10,000 years. The earth has warmed fairly steadily since records have been kept. Educating yourself is your protection against being duped.

Answer 7

because they "believe" instead of because it's factual.

here are some of the predictions i grew up with over the past 40 years:

famine
mass death
shifting of food production regions
climate change
overpopulation
global cooling
mass starvation
massive glaciers
uninhabitable places on earth
running out of fossil fuel
pollution physically altering man (through adaptation)

all this was supposed to happen by the year 2000, and if man didn't stop using fossil fuels. we had 30+ years of "irrefutable data" showing that man caused it too.

but we didn't stop, we used more!

STRANGELY, NOT ONE PREDICTION HAS CAME TRUE YET!

with this kind of track record how can anyone seriously "believe" global warming

Answer 8

global warming is not the SOLE reason however it is a contributor. other contributrors include mentioned above by others: deforestation, unwise farming practices, overpopulation. contributing to those contributors (if that makes sense) is lack of education, abusive/ineffective governments, exploitation by Western industrial countries (governments and businesses), and nonchalance by the people who can do something about it.

Answer 9

Floods and famine in India are not established scientifcally as due to global warming... The deviation of rainfall from the normal (+ or - 20% of normal or average rains) has not been so high as to cause the unprecedented floods in any part of the country... But the floods traditionally get more and more acute due to poor maintenance of the waterways (as rightly pointed out by others), encroachments of the catchments and lakes, lack of periodical desilting and removal of clogs (vegetation etc) in the drainages etc have been the reasons for the flash floods..

The local bodies charged with the maintenance of small irrigation tanks did not have adequate financial resources to take up the maintenance of the water bodies and State PWD took over the maintenance of MI tanks as well, in Tamilnadu for instance, and even the latter did not have adequate resources to maintain even major tanks not to think of the 29000 odd MI tanks in the state.. They entered into an agreement with EC to modernise a few hundred tanks here and there... and that was all.. But the govt claims to be pro agriculturist... The proportionate allocation to the sector (forming the largest segment of the population) over the ten Five Year Plans have been steadily decreased...

In olden days people themselves used to take up maintenance work of these water bodies by giving their free service (Shramdhan) which was changed by the British who started maintenance and collecting cess for the service.. Now even Govts have not been doing this important thing properly.. Govts are overtl biased toward the trade sector from which they receive greater revenue (besides personal incentives, call it whatever name).. They cheat people saying that they give primacy to agriculture by showing irrelevent statistics...

Well. About famines. There is abundant food reserve with the govt and there is no dearth of food grains etc in the market and so there is no famine... IF people can not reach the food due to poverty it is due to the faulty planning... What Dr M.S.Swaminathan used to call "jobless growth"...

Global warming or increase in the average ambient temperature due to felling of trees that recycle the CO2 and convert into oxygen (during photosynthesis), while increasing the CO2 due to increased use of fossil fuels for driving vehicles etc does indeed increase the ambient temperature. The trees can even siphon off toxic SO2 and other gases (particularly Citrus spp etc) and cleanse the environment. But we are building more and more concrete structures at the cost of vegetation and our health..

There is controversy whether the warming (doubling of CO2 level in 1950s over what it was a century before was reported in those days and it could have now still increased retaining the warmth in greater measure) is due to our increasing use of fossil fuels etc or due to solar radiation phenomena remains unsolved, each school holding its own view...

In spite of the lack of a solid proof, the logical consequence of using more and more fossil energy etc on warming up of the globe, with risk of polar ice melting, rise in sea level, plants developing floral sterility, human health hazards etc appear to be plausible and needs to be taken note of..

Use of safe alternate energy like solar cookers, solar heaters and lighting, wind energy for lifting water from well, gobar gas for cooking gas production etc would go a long way to reduce progressively use of toxic fossil fuel... Simultaneous expansion of vegetative cover would help improve the ecology and health of all life forms..

Answer 10

I believe that the battery waste in the world is eating holes into the earths core and yes causing tsunami's