Trying to understand climate change

I have noticed that Climate Change believers are traveling the world to deliver the message that our climate is changing. Then they all decide that a Conference is needed to discuss how to stop or limit Climate Change.

Hang on a second, all these people are flying around the planet, how much carbon are these guys producing with all their traveling. If there was a big problem you would think the converted might consider using technology like blogs, Facebook. Twitter and satellite conferencing.

So what is going on? Is my climate changing? The last ten years have been the driest on record, but then Australia only has 200 years of paper records. The last ten years might only be the long term trend of this country. Geologist say that 15,000 years ago Australia had an inland sea that covered parts of South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

There are some things that cannot be challenged, we have records that show carbon levels have increased. But carbon is not the only gas and chemical that has increased in our atmosphere. My biggest concern is that we are concentrating on only carbon, and that the decisions being pushed onto the world stage, may, in the future be a bigger problem than too much carbon. Where is the environmental research on "carbon reducing projects", no-one seems to be asking if the reduction projects have problems. The only focus seems to be carbon reduction.

Look around and you find that there are thousands of reports on the changing environment, and that the change is gaining speed. Human activity has been blamed for this change. How the scientist have arrived at this conclusion is unclear. The earth has a long geological record of change, and all that is needed is one super volcano to explode and plunge us into a 1,000 year winter. Is the warming we are experiencing now due to a lack of volcanic activity? Or are the scientist right in laying the blame at human activity.

What hasn't been looked at in global warming terms is our habit of tossing our plastic out. There is a reef of plastic floating in the Atlantic Ocean, this reef of plastic seems to be challenging plankton for a place in the sun, if the oceans have a plastic film cover, are they absorbing the amount of carbon they used too? Is carbon increasing because the oceans are being suffocated? That would make the scientists right about human activity causing Climate Change, everyone is looking at land based causes, I hope this is not because the cleanup bill for the oceans is a super volcano that no-one wants to explore.

But then are my concerns all that important to the scheme of things. If the political world is convinced that Climate Change is, well then it is, and whether we believe or not will cease to matter. Eventually some sort of carbon reduction law will become a part of our landscape.

If the climate is changing and we don't reduce the pollution that is causing the problem then the worst of the climate change forecasts will be with us. But reducing Climate Change causes, will change our lives too. All that can be concluded is that change is going to be a part of our lives, what we believe about the state of things just won't be the issue.