Fernando Alcoforado*
In recent times, there have been numerous attacks on the global warming thesis and its effects on the climate defended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by questioning their reports produced with the participation of 2,500 scientists from 131 countries, bringing together observations, conclusions, forecasts and recommendations of several thousand climate scientists from around the world. What we are witnessing today is a real war of the media sectors and US government against the issue of catastrophic climate change and its relation to the predatory human activities such as the emission of greenhouse gases. The paradigm that attributes to man the greatest cause of climate change is being confronted by the skeptics who consider the paradigm that attributes their greater responsibility to natural causes.
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* Fernando Alcoforado, 79, holder of the CONFEA / CREA System Medal of Merit, member of the Bahia Academy of Education, engineer and doctor in Territorial Planning and Regional Development by the University of Barcelona, university professor and consultant in the areas of strategic planning, business planning, regional planning and planning of energy systems, is the author of 14 books addressing issues such as Globalization and Development, Brazilian Economy, Global Warming and Climate Change, The Factors that Condition Economic and Social Development, Energy in the world and The Great Scientific, Economic, and Social Revolutions that Changed the World.