Global warming threat

If the increasing frequency of extreme weather conditions around the world in recent years still fails to convince us of the imminent threat from climate change, the collapse of an area as large as 415 sq km from the Wilkin Ice Shelf in the Antarctic detected by satellite this week is testimony.

The Kyoto Protocol adopted in 1997 seems to be a manifestation that the majority of countries in the world had reached the consensus that climate change was happening and to a larger extent than we had previously expected.

Yet, it is one thing to know the threat is there, and it is another to take effective measures to stop the threat from becoming a reality.