Does this scare you?

We do need to be more careful, each and every one of us but sometimes we need to use our voice as well.

Thankyou for that input. We don't hear much about the everglades where I live. I hope people get the message sooner rather than later.

I try to be minimal in my use of water, power and fuel but I know there is much more I could do if I tried harder. I look around and I see so much degradation and waste and I become quite sad and concerned, angry and depressed.

And ignorant. I can't believe that the education of youngsters is still so lacking in the basic realities of life.

If every educated person would simply avail themselves of a little knowledge and play their small part, I believe we could make significant changes. We take too much for granted in this place where we live in my opinion. Thanks for your thoughtful input my friend. xxxx

I think we all need to be doing our bit. Use less fuel, plant more trees, concerve our natural resources. We can't just leave it up to the scientists.

I think there are other issues that take precedence as dodoguy pointed out. Historically, global warming is inevitable...who knows, by the time water levels have reached undesired levels, man may have colonised another planet. We need to educate ourselves to the needs of the planet and act in whatever way we can. We probably won't.

Hi benthose, I live in Australia, and I do actually empathize with much of what you say. But the world is not what it seems - not by a long shot. Rampant greed and colonial chauvinism has ravaged much of the global ecology, and IMO that's jeopardizing the habitability of the biosphere. Misallocation of resources at the expense of the many for the benefit of the few. Long-term folly for short-term gain. BUT IMO the "global warming" thing is a big, fat, very red herring. The SUN is the principle agent of "global warming". And there's little that anyone can do to modify the Sun's behavior. All the hype and misinformation about "global warming" does apparently provide an effective mechanism for the few in power to distract and manipulate the rest of the population, however. Sort of like keeping everyone watching one hand, while the other hand gets up to mischief behind our backs. So while we're all frantically learning to roller-skate to "stop global warming", what's left of the world's rainforests are being conveniently and quietly bulldozed for whatever remaining profit can still be screwed out of them. And a couple million Middle-Eastern and African residents get quietly slaughtered, out-of-sight, out-of-mind, in the "clash of civilizations" orchestrated for the purpose of annexing oil resources, while we all spend time and effort fretting about how to "stop global warming". It's a mess, that's for sure. But Americans and other Westerners aren't to blame for "global warming". The Sun is the culprit there. The real damage being done to the planet has mostly already been done, and it's continuing unabated, just like it has for the last couple of thousand years. We've lost half of the world's forest cover since Roman times, and what's left won't last for too much longer. And the villain there is greed - human greed - just like it's always been. At the present time, the seat of power rests with the Western world, and so that's where much of the world's problems are coming from - manipulating and exploiting those countries in less advantageous positions, just like human civilizations have always done. But the world's power is now shifting towards China, India, Russia and South America, and rightly so. The problems of Empire will also likely shift to those areas, including the pattern of manipulating and exploiting less powerful and wealthy nations. That's what Empires do, it's what humans do - always have, always will. And there's another angle to the issue of exploitation. Americans are actually a kind and benevolent race of people - very naive about the rest of the world, but friendly and gregarious nonetheless. The same as most people everywhere around the world - people are people, and they mostly just want to raise families, get enough food to live and have somewhere to sleep at night. The PROBLEM with the USA and most any country that abuses its position in the world is the mongrels who RUN the joint. And at the moment, IMO we have a bunch of fascists at the helm in the USA. Up to this point, the capitalistic nature of the American democracy has seen widespread abuses around the world, just like the Soviet bloc of the same period. But what's going on now is more blatant and aggressive - and the pattern is spreading to other countries around the world. W@hat's more, the American people (and those in many other Western countries) are also being ground down and exploited by the ruling elite. Don't believe the propaganda, the standard of living in the English speaking world is NOT rising - it's actually been sliding for a few decades now, as the wealth is being systematically transferred from the working class to the ruling class. There are a great many people in the USA and other similar cultures who are seriously malnourished because they can't make enough money to survive. Remember that shift in the balance of world power? Economic good fortune will follow that shift, as will economic mayhem for those countries that lose it. I would expect that countries like India and China have rosier futures in store than many Western nations, a least for the next few generations. BUT as to the "global warming" issue, as I stated, IMO it's a red herring. And meanwhile, little is being done to stop deliberate ecological destruction all around the world in pursuit of profits. The saga of Japanese whale-hunting is, in my view, a metaphor for humanity's short-sighted, self-interested cynicism for the welfare of the world. Why do they do it? Because they can. Because they have lots of money. And because no-one has the balls to stop them.

And yes.. I wont have to worry about about my kids and grandkids because I don't have any and am not planning to have any!!

Hey you Americans and people from other developed countries out there.. You are the ones responsible for this.. You ought to be guilty Do you have any idea how much energy you waste by unnecessary usage?? Please stop it.. Learn from the developing countries like India.. Or may be undo your sins by starving like the people in underdeveloped countries..

Mizrae, The events that Ms. Tickle described are not junk science. This very large icefield really is breaking off and has been documented by many scientists. There is also plenty of evidence in Alaska and the North of Canada. The sad story is that North Americans are the biggest wasters of resources such as water, fossil fuel and electrical power. And the we groan and moan about the price of gas. We are all aware that there was an ice age 10 000 years ago that was not caused by man kind. Maybe the undeniable climate changes that we see these days are part of a natural cycle but we cannot deny that we speed up these changes by our wanton and wasteful uses of the earth's natural resource.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming#Greenhouse_gases_in_the_atmosphere this is just one source.

where I live we have a ridge that was created by glaciers when they were melting and sliding around. You have to remeber the earth was once covered in glaciers and they all melted. Man had nothing to do with it. So no it does not sare me.