Managing Conflict, Power and Politics

MANAGING CONFLICT , POWER AND POLITICS

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To Paul Johnson (2008 , in his article titled The Nonsense of Global Warming , those who buy into global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities , regardless of the consequences for people , especially the poor ' Indeed the issue of global warming continues to draw mixed reactions from those who advocate for reduced pollution and industrial activity or the greens ' as Johnson calls them and those who think that global warming is as a result of peoples

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Global warming simply refers to the increased earth temperature as a result of increased greenhouse gas activities . The consequent result of such emissions of greenhouse gas is unpredictable foul weather , strange diseases , floods amongst others . The increased fury of hurricanes is blamed upon global warming . Paul Johnson repudiates such claim providing a flurry of counterarguments to water down the Greens arguments

Global warming as a theory lacks in consistency and does not conform to the requirements set forth by Karl Popper that demands that for a theory to be considered scientific and valid it must meet a certain the test of time . To Paul Johnson , global warming fails greatly in this

The issue of global warming is as controversial as they get and it has become more of a political subject than a scientific issue . With increased research by scientists and consequently increased findings , it has continued to draw wide sentiments from across the economic and political divide . A number of people indeed concur with Johnson that global warming has been introduced by scientists and politicians alike to derail the economic and industrial might of the United States America is the key target . As Paul Johnson argues , if America is driven to accept crippling restraints on its economy , it will rapidly become unable to shoulder its burdens as worlds sole superpower and ultimate defender of human freedoms

Paul Johnson 's arguments on the surface sound tenable especially on the inefficient energy sources the Greens are advocating for , but it reflects myopism to denote that global warming is not real , reducing it to a creed , a faith , a dogma that has little to do with science ' One wonders of Johnson 's motive in belittling a subject that has been widely covered by scientists and researchers worldwide . A that continues to imbue fear as its effects upon the world are eminent even to those of little faith

Indeed this is a line of thinking that has been taken up by many and is used to justify the refusal by the United States to ratify the Kyoto Protocol . Paul Johnson is a writer of international accreditation , a renowned historian and author of over 40 famous books . He is not new to controversy and swam against the popular tide in support of Richard Nixon despite the latter 's failure in the Watergate Scandal . To insinuate hence that global warming is a fairy tale is conforming to his usual nature

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