[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by RoboMadi

It doesn't take longer than a sec to realize that FIRST and the future global warming is related. Last post on that thread was in 2004. A lot has changed between now and then.
Global Warming and its fate is approaching human kind faster than predicted. Theoretically it's been proved that by 2050, world will be devastated by the consequences of Global Warming. There is a great chance by 2020 for the European Continent to go under Ice Age.

Originally Posted by RoboMadi

In 1996, when the debate over the Global Warming began, a lot of scientist actually predicted that hurricanes like Katrina can wipe out cities like New Orleans, New York, Boston, DC etc by the end on 21st century. It was simply shocking.

I think you're confusing possible outcomes with probable outcomes. Worst-case scenarios make the news, but it's important to assess just how likely these things are. To be clear, climatic events on this scale are extremely unlikely—one might even say ridiculously unlikely.

As a matter of fact, it's commonly held that we're currently nearing the end of an interglacial period of the Pleistocene ice age—periods of (typically) 10 to 20 thousand years where it's warmer than the median temperature for that era. Let's be clear that calling a small temperature variation in Europe an ice age makes no sense. Especially when the timeframe is so short.

Similarly, the fact that a scientist predicted devastating hurricanes in our future is not enough reason to expect devastating hurricanes. In science, we appeal to evidence, not to authority—and the evidence does not currently indicate any long-term trend with respect to the severity or location of hurricanes.

Originally Posted by RoboMadi

If we look at the CO2 levels in earth atmosphere right now, its easy to say that we have to face the consequences of Global Warming, but the only thing we can do about is to control how extreme they can be.

Fair enough; CO₂ has real, measurable effects. And they do contribute greatly to global warming, possibly in a way that will stretch out this interglacial period. But you're exaggerating—that's the problem here.

Originally Posted by RoboMadi

The point I'm trying to make over here is that by the time I'll be 50-60, world will be devastated by this. Not only me, every one will be a victim. Katrina caused a lot of damage in Trade Market. Now think of tens or hundreds of Katrina's. That will totally ruin the market. That means that there will be no funding or sponsoring for FIRST events or organization all together.
FIRST has been preparing us for this time. We are the one's who have to think and figure out the solutions for this problem. Thats what i would like to hear from you. What do you think is a solid solution to prevent FIRST from the global warming and its consequences? Remember its a dependency issue, and FIRST rely on a lot of dependent resources to provide us the Hardest Fun.

I don't mean to be harsh, but it seems that while you're concerned that FIRST will die if the economy tanks (due to environmental disaster), you're not overly concerned with the disasters themselves. In perspective, if we were to experience the worst-case scenario that you envision, society would rightfully have bigger things to deal with than a bunch of kids building toy robots.

Fortunately, there's no reason to believe that we're going to be dealing with disaster on the scale that you've envisioned. Global environmental effects are certainly to be expected, but don't worry about anything on the scale of an ice age. Humanity hasn't screwed up that badly.