All predictions indicate that this year and each coming year till at least 2012 and beyond will see ever increasing examples of dramatic weather and climate change. More storms, bigger storms. More drought, more floods, more heat, more snow.
  
  For people living near the seashore or a major river system, the predictions for the next few years are not good. Already we are seeing low lying areas in Europe, Asia and the Americas repeatedly being flooded almost on an yearly basis.
  
  And the cause for all this increasing catastrophe we are told is ourselves- the human race.
  
  The horror list of crimes against the planet by human environmental vandalism
  
  The evidence for negative human impact on local environments appears overwhelming:  
  +Rainfall pattern changes over former rainforests now bulldozed and burnt for timber, crops and grazing
  
  +Increased desertification in Africa and Asia including more severe droughts and the draining/destruction of natural wetlands
  
  +Increase in unusable/salty land around river systems as a result of over-irrigation and excessive land clearing
  
  +Countless massive land and water pollution cases where whole systems and regions will remain toxic for thousands of years
  
  A floating garbage dump in the middle of the Pacific larger than the state of Texas, killing millions of small plankton, fish and birds as a result of all the refuse thrown into the ocean and collected together by currents.
  
  The list goes on.  
  But it is the even bigger cycles that have millions of people worried:
  
  The simultaneous melting of the Arctic ice and the Antarctic ice as well as permafrost’s in Canada, Greenland, Iceland and South America.
  
  The increasing ferociousness of storms and weather patterns
  
  Just as the evidence for local environmental devestation points the finger to the human race, leading scientists and academics also point the finger to the human race for changes to these larger environmental cycles.
  
  But is this accurate? Is the human race responsible for the planetary changes as well as the damage to local environments as well? Or is the Climate Change/Global Warming movement stretching the responsibility for change beyond it scope?
  
  The statistics and passionate arguments that are used by the forces that believe the human race is responsible for everything is powerful- and highly emotive. From the increase of carbon dioxide/monoxides as well as a cocktail of dangerous gases “heating” the world through to years of data pointing to an increase in global temperatures.
  
  On the smaller and less influential opposition side, some scientists point to recent voclcanic eruptions in the past twenty years such as Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and Mount St. Helens in Washington State, both of which produced such tremendous amounts of air pollution in a matter of days that its affect on global temperatures were recorded over several months of a year.
 
  On another argument, some oceanic scientists point to the role of the oceans in naturally absorbing and releasing massive quantities of carbon dioxide in some kind of cycle of hundreds and thousands of years back into the atmosphere many times greater than all the pollution ever created by the human race.
  
  In spite of such clear evidence showing the impact of the human race in terms of whole globe appears overrated, the climate change lobby has become even more influential and emphatic. Why?
  
  Because the weather keeps getting worse and they remain one of the few groups apart from doomsday religious merchants providing any kind of explanation as well as solution to the problem.
  
  Choosing paper over plastic may not have a huge impact on the change in climate, but to individual consumers it gives them a feeling of direct influence on their environment- something that is not going to be given up quickly or easily to counter science that says global warming is not all it claims to be.
  
  So what is going on? How can we find out more and what can we do about it?
  
     

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