A comment on the BBC News website on global temperature targets:
"I find it hilarious that the global temperature has been given a target
- to me, this smacks of King Canute ordering the sea to turn back -
this is almost as preposterous as giving a child a target growth each
year, or telling the rain that it must provide x number of centimetres,
no more, no less.
No doubt, the weather will be heavily fined if it doesn't meet the targets imposed by Copenhagen."
Another person commented:
"Climate changes every three months, and we call the changes seasons."
What do you think about that?! I find it hilarious but interesting. If you live in the UK you'll know about the recent flooding in Cumbria. What I find utterly ludicrous is when people put those floods down to climate change. Things like that happen all the time, and have since the beginning of time! I'm not sure if there has actually been an increase at all in natural disasters, its just that we have more records of it at the moment than from centuries ago, which is entirely reasonable.
Is is actually possible for us to influence the earths temperature? Or will nature do what it wants and we just learn to live with it? I have no idea, opinions please.