Global problems global solutions

I think it is every ones duty to be informed on all issues that affect our day to day living, regardless on whether we all get the drift of the issue or not. Global warming is a global problem and needs a global solution. The problem is, we are all not on the same page when it comes to tackling problems or understanding them or even worse have the same capability. Sustainable development on a global level, will only be achieved, if we can first achieve equality and fairness among all involved. This will in turn create empowered citizens that are armed to make the planet a better place. I somehow agree with Bjorn Lomborg in his book "Cool It" published in 2007, "Climate change is a 100- year problem and we should not try to fix it in 10 years". He argues that "the cost and benefits of the proposed measures against global warming, is the worst way to spend our money".(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%c3%B8rn_Lomborg) There are other immediate problems like poverty, diseases eg malaria, AIDS,etc that could be tackled with some of the money.

This brings me to the great global warming swindle, where it is claimed that global warming is now a big business and lots of jobs. Definitely, there are no jobs in tackling poverty and diseases, which really supports the video. There are no institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that have been created to look into causes of poverty and diseases around the world. This really posses a question on whether global warming is happening as quickly as they are telling us. The video states that there is no evidence to support that human CO2 is causing global warming as Al Gore suggests in his movie "the inconvenient truth". Al Gore says that there is a link between rising temperatures and CO2, the great global warming swindle video, opposes what he is suggesting and says that the link is the other way round- the rise in temperatures is leading the rise in CO2 by 800 years. The video claims that climate has always changed and what the inconvenient truth does not explain is why that none of the major climate change in the last 1000 years can be explained by CO2, or even why temperatures were higher than they are today in the medieval warm period. Am also intrigued by the fact that that during the post war economic boom, when assumably there was a rise in CO2 due to industrial development, temperatures fell for four decades (www.youtube.com). Despite the fact that no one is denying global warming, I can't help wondering whether human CO2 is the main cause and more so when you see the money involved in the global warming industry.

AS for leaving complicated decisions to others, I think each and every decision should be scrutinized by an independent body to make sure that peoples imaginations are not running away with them on the expense of others. Margaret Thatcher commissioned a group to produce a report on global warming simply to make her case on nuclear power strong, and used tax payers money to make funding available (the great global warming swindle video). I think we have to question motives and interests of all involved in making big decisions. If we can step away for a minute from global warming, Tony Blair made a decision to go to war in Iraq even though the experts on weapons of mass destruction had strongly advised against it(www.bbcnews.co.uk). Most recently, the government disagreed with an expert on drugs professor Nutts and even went as far as sucking him as an advisor,(www.bbc.co.uk) which brings me to ask the question, who should make decisions or should we all get involved?.

But I think in the end what we have to do is listen and evaluate the evidence used in big debates like global warming and then do what you think is right from there, because without the knowledge some areas are quite difficult to comprehend and you cannot be an expert on everything.For example Al Gore tells us that human CO2 is the major contributor to high temperatures, while the great global warming swindle tells us that volcanoes and oceans are the major contributors. Volcanoes produce more CO2 than people, cars and industries put together. And the warmer the oceans are the more CO2 they produce and can also be a major reservoir in that the cooler they are the more CO2 they suck in. The video also states that there is a time lag in oceans warming and the effects being seen(www.youtube.com).So may be, just may be, this is the cause of the global warming that we are experiencing. May be the oceans started warming up some time ago and we are only seeing the effects now, has anyone stopped to think about this? It could also be the reason why we see the glaciers in the arctic melting off so fast, right? It would be nice to blame it on the oceans warming up then we don't have to do anything about it, just chill and wait for the rising sea levels to come and drawn us off the face of the planet. When I weigh the two evidences, I honestly have no idea who to believe or whether we need to do anything to slow global warming or leave it to fate. One thing is for sure though, we need to do a lot of research, reading and questioning to be informed.