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Climate Change: Initiating the Dialogue - Part III

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I recently got called a "child" on Twitter. And as much as I would like to take it as a compliment, I can't help facing that it was actually meant as a derisive remark to shut me up because .. well, the person who said that had nothing concrete to say. It began with a tweet from Nupur Sharma, Editor of OpIndia.com, tweeted: ‘Climate change’ has become like an off shoot of Islamism. No scope for discussion or debate. A contrarian view invites an immediate fatwa. A fatwa when climate change is not even being denied. The hypocrisy and doomsday predictions are merely being called out. https://t.co/Y4UZrTJALv — Nupur J Sharma (@UnSubtleDesi) September 25, 2019 [ Please check out the context of this tweet, if you have the time. It would be quite interesting to delve into it, but I would be straying away from the central point of my post. ] To this, I replied: Unfortunately, there really is no scope for discussion or debate considering, it's a matter o