Hi All, My apologies for posting this unrelated to ufo post again but this topic is of most concern to me. I received many comments saying that global warming is not real and it is part of a coverup to 'manipulate' the population. Yes i did watch
The Great Global Warming Swindle but I do not agree with this film nor the conservative scientists opinions that it is the sun not Co2 causing global warming. If it was the sun wouldn't the 'natural' fluctuations in the sun over the past few millions of years the earth has been around caused melting of the poles in the past and if not why are they still here and why is it they only melting just now?And just because global warming is a hot topic in the media at the moment doesn't necessarily mean there is some implied coverup or alternate agenda being planned for the public - you know not every story is necessarily a coverup in disguise!. Infact some scientists have actually been 'bought out" by the oil companies to discredit global warming research in this way and it looks like they are doing a good job at it. This film is exactly an example of what Al Gore mentions about anti global warming propaganda: "all they have to do is to
create doubt and they have won".
For those who think Global warming won't impact on them think again!
For us living in Australia, the impacts of global warming are all too real and plain for us to see, its impacting on our lives right now - the last two summers have been the hottest ever on record, we have a looming water crisis - shockingly our dams are all almost empty (causing us now to resort to desalination) and now the main food basin suppling food to Sydney is without water and we are for the first time ever experiencing systemtic crop failures . As a result we are currently paying heaps more for fresh food and this will increase as all these foods will have to be imported, and our industries of agriculture are experiencing losses, impacting on our economic growth as a nation. Our prime minister said "this is the worst draught in 1000 years and he recently he told to the nation we should "pray for rain". This is simply not some cyclical natural phenomenon!.
You only have to look at the below images below to simply grasp whats going on here - its a simple fact : industralisation = CO2 increase = global warming !

These images show arctic sea ice melt as measured by satellite data in September 1979 and again in September 2003. (
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, November 2004, page 31 of PDF)

Seasonal surface ice melt extent on the Greenland Ice Sheet has been observed by satellite since 1979 and shows an increasing trend. The melt zone, where summer warmth turns snow and ice around the edges of the ice sheet into slush and ponds of meltwater, has been expanding inland and to record high elevations in recent years. (
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, November 2004, page 46 of PDF)

The images, recorded by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer satellite sensor, show the Larsen B ice shelf and parts of the Antarctic Peninsula (on left). The first photo on January 31, 2002 shows the shelf in late summer. The next photo shows the main collapse on March 7, 2002, with thousands of sliver icebergs where the shelf formerly lay. (
National Snow and Ice Data Center, 2002)