Posted On: April 25, 2006, 1:47 pm CDT

Posted By: Roger

Global warming might become a serious problem but, the main issue is whether it is being significantly influenced by man. I and many eminent climatologists believe that man made greenhouse gases are not the major cause. The Earth is still in a period of relative coolness. On average, global temperatures have been six or seven degrees centigrade warmer than current. Surely, some further research has to be applied to seeking the causes of previous warmings and coolings (when human beings had no influence), before spending billions of dollars to solve a problem that might be unsolvable.
The majority of the World's population might well consider that global warming is the major issue of the age and that it is all our fault but, when politicians and most of the media insist that it is our fault, people will eventually believe it. Very little airtime and column inches are given to scientists who dispute the current view, indeed, many of them are vilified by those with a vested interest in maintaining that man is to blame. Governments (especially those in Europe) raise vast amounts in environmental taxes and some of this money funds huge research projects into climate models, inefficient carbon neutral alternative energy sources etc etc. Whilst it could turn out to have been the right thing to do, we are going to be rather hacked off it was all a waste of time and money.