Global Climate Change Action

I was recently made aware of an extensive list of Scientists who refute Global Warming/Climate Change as a man made phenomena. These scientists do not dispute that Climate Change is happening, they argue that it is a natural cycle. They go on to ask governments to steer taxes into disaster preparation and continued growth to tackle the problem. The link is here:
http://www.rense.com/general79/d3m.htm

I have replied to them below:

I am not a scientist and my first glimmer of climate change came in 1998 when there was a really big heat wave. The shallow waters of Picnic Bay on Magnetic Island was too hot to walk into without burning your feet. I lived in the tropics of Qld, Australia, on an island surrounded by incredibly beautiful and diverse inshore coral reefs. Over the next two years many of these inshore reefs began to bleach and crumble. Then algae took hold. What was left (particularly in the shallower waters) was quickly suffocated by a forest of seaweed and turned into a muddy slush when the seaweed that fed off it ran out of fuel and was washed away by a minor cyclone. Said seaweed was then washed ashore and protected the trees roots (before it was cleaned up) which were badly exposed by the disappearing sand lines.

These sand lines continue to disappear on every beach I have visited in Qld over the last ten years or so. I don’t know where the sand is going, but it is rather amusing to watch the bulldozers attempt to put it all back year after year while the tides continue to grow higher and ever higher…

I watch this happening with my own eyes and try and understand why it is happening. It is very sad to witness first hand. It is not confined to any one particular beach but all of the beaches I have visited (even the ones with no continual human occupation).

I began to learn back in 1998 about global warming and climate change. Now, I do not dispute it. I just hope that there is time left for humanity to make the changes needed in order to survive as a species. Many have already lost their lives. I feel great sadness for their loss. Many more will perish in the not too distant future, particularly if we continue to deny what is happening before our very eyes.
see: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25555143-1702,00.html

I want a future for my children. I would like to ask those who remain in denial, what harm is there to TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION NOW? Disaster mitigation strategies must be put into place to protect those most vulnerable.

Natural or man made...does it matter?

What harm (apart from loss of income to multi-national corporations) will become this planet we all share, if we move AWAY from polluting industries and INTO a clean energy future? Whether the climate change/global warming scientists "preachers" are all full of hot air, or the others are “big industry” paid liars, there will be A LOT LESS HARM DONE to humanity and the home we all share if we clean up our act now.

Might I add that it is also ignorant and foolish to ignore the impact of multi-national corporations on our planet. Their retrenched employees (often paid off with the minimum possible) which has been ... to date... to ensure their shareholders get a nice, fat, continual return on investment and control of market share, is ensured by the fattest and most heartless.

Take a look now at what is happening to those very same shareholders... their retirement funds not up in smoke but lining the pockets of a small handful of CEO's and crooked politicians.

Time is here and now to get out of bed with multi-nationals, crooked politicians and their reckless behaviours of despoiling our planet for a quick buck ... it just makes the thin starve and fat obese... whilst continuously ignoring the fate of our children's futures.

No matter who or what you believe, cleaning up our act and getting out of bed with multinational despoilers can do us no harm.