Regardless of the causes- and this is important - steps must be taken to diminish the effects and provide alternatives.

Thanks for putting that so succinctly Q. It's so obvious it shouldn't need saying, but it does.

I can't understand the kind of attitude that would presumably say "Stop trying to put out this burning house. I don't think it was actually set alight by an arsonist, it was a lighning strike. Nothing to do with us."

As for stuff like lasat winter's freeze in Amsterdam, that only happens pretty rarely, and it's been that way since the canals were built. It's weather, not climate. "What do you mean by 'global warming' - it was very cold this morning."