For those too young to remember, we were told that a new ice age was on it's way back in the 70s. This is why some of us are pretty suspicious about the current clamoring of global warming. Newsweek's article about this in 1975. The boy has cried wolf already.

IMO, what we are seeing is the result of tons of data from more accurate modern global weather collection, collected and analyzed to death by people trying to assess and figure out why various isolated natural disasters happen. We don't have accurate/complete readings for a long enough timeframe to properly figure out what is going on, it's all guesswork at this point, combined with whatever political agenda people want to push. And all this work and fuss will mean nothing the next time some random volcano in the Pacific Rim blows it's top and spews enough ash and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to cool the planet down by a couple of degrees.

Now I'm all for clean air and water. I think we should attempt to live in harmony with nature as much as possible. Are human responsible for climate change? Most likely. Is it as far-reaching as people say? Probably not. What to do about it? Not much. When the planet wants us gone, we will be gone, and it will continue on happily without us (since it already has the plastic ).