On the greenhouse gasses / global warmin / global climate change / etc / front...

Point #1: CO2 is the most famous greenhouse gas, but its not the most effective. That dubious honour belongs to Methane. It is approximately 20x as powerful as CO2 as a greenhouse agent on the ozone. The, well rather exagerrated, effects on the ozone can be seen if you take Venus for example: its the closest definition to hell we have in the real world. Its atmosphere is comprised heavily of Methane and CO2, the pressures on that planet, because of the composition of the atmosphere, can destroy anything in a matter of seconds. It also rains sulfuric acid.


Back on topic; in certain parts of Syberia, there are massive massive huge enormous naturally occuring deposits of methane, which, because of the temperature of the region, is or rather should be perpetually frozen.

However, in recent times, the average temperature of the earth has been steadily rising. Of course, the average temperature of these specific parts have been rising too. You can see where I'm getting at.


Point #2: The outer layers of Greenland have been steadily disappearing. Consequently, many smaller islands have begun feeling the effects of the rising sea level already. The Maldives will be nothing but an underwater dream in 15 years time, at the current pace.


Sitting back and laughing, or worse, not caring, because "its not that hot" and "people are making too much of a fuss about it", and "the earth's temperature has changed sooo many times before, who cares if it does so again?", is a fairly naive and nonsensical approach. Ostrich's policy, if you get it.

The earth's climate has indeed gone through many transformations naturally in the past, but the key issue and factor here is time: the changes are occurring at a much much absurdly faster rate than it would naturally, thanks to man's hand.