by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
London, UK, 11/25/2009: After the hack into the server of the Climatic Research Unit of the East Anglia University the damage control is running on an absolute “high”.
On a great number of deep green websites and Blogs, and especially those supported by big organizations, counter claims are being issues. This is aside even from the claims that the hackers, in a couple of hours from obtaining the docuents to releasing them, have manipulated those emails and other data.
Unless there were hundreds of them who all knew exactly how and in which way to manipulate such material then this is outright fiction.
Now articles like “50% more civil war in Africa in 2030... Thanks to Climate Change”, “New study sends European carbon sink down the drain”, “Dangerous, potentially-irreversible climate change happening faster than scientists thought”, are just a little taster of the titles that have been chosen and the subject matter in order to scare people into believing that the material “liberated” by the hacker or hackers has been manipulated and is therefore not true.
Climate change is happening, and that is something that I would not even think of disputing, but it never was – more than likely – reversible in any way, shape or form as it is not – primarily – man-made but a wobble that Mother Earth is throwing every now and then in more or less regular intervals.
While human activity may have contributed somewhat to the problems of the changing climate much of the loss of habitat and species is not due to climate change. It is due to what we, man, have done to the environment, to the Earth, to our Mother, in way of pollution, poisoning, over-fishing, hunting to extinction, etc.
Why are we trying to blame everything Global Warming and Climate Change and in turn blame that on human activity?
If that be the case of the warming and climate change being caused by human activities the somehow the ancients must have released a lot of “greenhouse gases”. Or how else could Greenland have been green and covered in huge forests?
During the 1960s and the 1070s, the era of the Hippies, the talk was about a new ice age to soon – meaning then – to be upon us and we were told that the desertification of the Sahel, and other savanna regions, were proof of this happening. Then, the same was cited as proof to the Global Warming.
That new ice age that was supposed to be upon us was said to be due to the pollution from industry and motorcars that were were releasing and by the g-ds we were and still are releasing that and are poisoning our Planet but... Man-made Climate Change and the agenda surrounding it has all but caused all the other environmental concerns and problems to be overshadowed and pushed into the far background.
Rivers, lakes, sea, air and soil are still being contaminated, polluted and poisoned at a rate of knots but... all that is being talked about is “combating climate change” and “CO2 reduction”. Occasionally, but only very occasionally, we still hear about the tropical rainforests and the way they are being destroyes but then that ends up being on the climate change concern ticket again and that is all.
What good would be to us a “cool” Planet if this Planet ends up poisoned and unable to support life, and definitely unable to support human life?
We must get back on track and deal with all issues of the environment, not just the changing climate against which we, more than likely, cannot do anything whatsoever. So, let's stop pretending that we can.
However, we can do a great deal about most, if not indeed all, the other issues, such as the pollution issues, the waste issue, the depletion fertility of the of soil and the depletion of water sources, etc.
So, let us get back on track and do what really needs to be done and where we really can do something. Let's clean up our act and the Planet.
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