In hindsight (that other underrated science) I should of course had titled this thread along the lines of "human production of greenhouse gas causes global warming , the myth". But I didn't, ho hum. It was an instant reaction to the fact that I was not alone in my firm beliefs. The pompous idea that humans could affect the world's climate I have always thought to be fatuous.Our atmosphere is vast and the volume of the sea mind boggling.
Global warming is a fact of course. But also a fact is that ice sheets have always melted at the poles but we didn't have the cameras to take such dramatic pictures. The global temerature has always gone up and down in a very slow cycle AND CO2 FOLLOWS IT - Not the other way around. Accepting this would mean governments all over the world would have to find other ways of raising / extorting money from us all.
Having spent all my life in media news I know first hand how a little scientific knowledge in the hands of a journalist is a dangerous thing. Anyone remember the "Great Breakthrough Discovery" on Nationwide when a reporter discovered you can get electricity from an orange if you stick two dissimilar metal wires in it. I fell about when I was asked to connect it to a light bulb to demonstrate this free electricity. It is the same mentality that has hitched onto the greenhouse gas theory.
Ah but I must be wrong, 'cos you read the opposite in the paper. Thankfully I am sure there are many out there just queuing up to correct my errant thinking.

Andy