Climate change; real or just fuss!

The 15th conference on climate change in Copenhagen, next week, will bring together delegations from 192, for two weeks, to address another global issue threatening to decimate us all due to mans’ lack of foresight, selfishness and greed. The conference, preceded by a meeting by the ministers of government who meet above 5600m, with Everest just in sight, in what was dubbed ‘taking climate higher’, is the greatest assembly bringing all leaders together to build consensus on climate change. The Copenhagen meeting is expected to pass new climate protocol to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol which ends in 2012, to prevent climate changes and stem global warming.
Interestingly, the meeting is expected to produce regulations to curb CO2 emissions especially from the heavy producers China and United States of America. To say the least there has been some progress with the inclusion of US in the talks snubbed by earlier administration and commitments from China and India who have been accused of doing little to address CO2 emissions. However, it must be stated that apart from these countries there are many others who are hitting above the belt making the efforts by others become a cropper. This meeting should be a wake-up call to every country, district, village and every human person to do what we must do to save the climate.
Indeed the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) blames ‘humankind's influence on the modern day climate and about the impacts of rising temperatures http://news.bbc.co.uk “Q&A. The Copenhagen Climate Summit”. At least the report by IPCC points at the principal cause as burning of fossil fuels that produce high concentrations of CO2 that combines with the CO2 in the air to trap more of sun’s energy and warming the earth’s surface. This explains the changes we all have witnessed in the past few years.
Notwithstanding, there is a disturbing issue is the fact that some scientists and cynics are dismissing global warming as a natural occurrence sending mixed signals to us mere mortals. However, unless they are willing to explain to us why we encounter hurricanes, floods, changed weather patterns, rise of sea water levels due to melting of glacier today more than ever, then their theory remains naught. The debate as usual has been politicized and countries are divided down in the middle.
However, it is heartening to hear that majority leaders are committed to do something to reverse the situation. At least by now we know the governments want ‘a new treaty that is bigger, bolder, wide-ranging and more sophisticated than the Kyoto agreement’ as reported by BBC. I hope this is not another futile gimmick to hoodwink the masses and as it emerged from the ‘greatest debate on earth’ on BBC, Saturday 06 Dec 2009, we either adapt or die.