Stringent measures needed to address climate change

World leaders, especially African leaders, have been urged to put in place stringent and effective climate change policies with tangible ambitions to deal with the increasing impact of climate change on their people.

According to a Ghanaian Scientist, Mr Joris Nana Wartemberg, such policies must be appropriate for their jurisdictions.

Mr Wartemberg said this when he delivered a lecture on the revised edition of his book titled: “The Science of Biblical Creation,” at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences at Biriwa in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region.

The 752- page book published by Yeshrun Entertainment and Publishing Limited seeks to define the unity of science and religion and attempts to use mathematics to obtain the existence of God and disapproves the various scientific theories propelled by renowned scientists.

It also questioned and examined the model of the universe as it imparts to the current generation by renowned scientists like Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and others who died scores of years ago.

He said the initiatives, plans and programmes aimed at reducing emissions under different projects were unhelpful to efforts at tackling the effects of climate change.

To him, a day in every week must be set aside in every country, during which factories would not operate and movement of vehicles would be limited.

Mr Wartemberg said according to research, climate change is a manifestation of the impact of humans on the earth’s natural climate.

In this instance, he said, it would afford the atmosphere time to substantially cleanse itself from toxic emissions and other harmful substances from such avenues, which contribute to climate change and restore to its original condition.

Mr Wartemberg said, it has been predicted that billions of people, particularly those in developing countries are likely to face shortages of water and food and stand greater risk to health and life as a result of climate change in the next decade.

Citing strategies China put in place to reduce pollution prior to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, he said unless something is done in this mid-century, the world would be overwhelmed by catastrophic effect of climate change.

China banned vehicles with high emission of gas fumes and introduced other alternative measures to improve the quality of air in the atmosphere.

According to him, the world had changed because the weather had changed.

He said he did not believe in Charles Darwin’s Theory of evolution which stated that “certain animals and human beings survived because they were the fastest and were selected by nature to survive”.

He said existence on earth and survival in what he refers to as ‘juggles of life’ was based purely on the weather and no matter how fit any animal or individual was, they could be killed off by an extreme high or low temperatures and natural disasters, beyond human understanding.

“That is the truth of the matter. We shouldn’t be surprised therefore to find out that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a disastrous change of weather like we are heading for now in our generation,” he warned.

He said his research was also based on the fact that scientific solutions like solar and other clean energies being advanced by scientists to supposedly improve the weather and survival chances of the world was based on the scientific work of scientists who died long ago, which he had challenged.

According to the World Bank, climate change and poverty are inextricably linked and without rapid, inclusive and climate smart development, climate change could see more than 100 million more people living in poverty by 2030.

Born on December 25, 1951 in Sekondi in the Western Region, Mr Wartemberg schooled at the Achimota School and studied law at the University of Ghana.

Known for his famous Akan drama series “Osofo Dadzie” in the late 90’s, he spent most of his years doing business in Egypt, Yemen and many other Arab countries from his base in London, England.

Now retired and back at home in Ghana, he spends his time researching and trying to understand why all human generations unquestioningly accept the beliefs and knowledge of their times as indisputable truth simply because they came to meet it.