Global Warming- Myth or Reality Hailstorms in the Middle East and heat waves in the UK, talk about Climate change! I remember thinking, ‘these global warming conspiracy theorists are going to have a hard time explaining this’. And I was right. Utter nonsense is all over the internet, about how the earth’s magnetic field influences our climate. Most of us are the breed that get the concept of global warming, but don’t really care because we have other worries to deal with. What about terrorism? Or the starving kids in Africa? Do we help these causes or do we support a global phenomenon that we don’t even know is true? In the words of James Lovelock, ‘The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years’. By this, he means global warming. But just how plausible is this? Just as we turn green, just as people start to realize that we’re killing the earth, Mr Lovelock comes along and says, ‘Sorry mate, it’s too late now’. I wonder how that makes those Greenpeace activists feel; all their efforts gone to waste, all their hopes and dreams for our future generations gone down the drain. It’s a harsh reality. I believe Al Gore and James Lovelock had the worst job in the world. Like telling someone that their son was terminal. There is no way out. But before we ridicule them, let’s take a moment to look around. Lakes are disappearing, Glaciers are becoming rivers and ice shelves are cracking. Still not enough proof? Take all the water in the world, heat it by 0.8°C and the solubility of carbon di-oxide in water drops, releasing 50 million tonnes of carbon di-oxide into the air. That’s twice the Carbon di-oxide produced by all cars and factories in the world. We know that the seas have risen in temperature by 1°C over the last couple of years, and that a part of the thermally sensitive Great Barrier Reef is dead. This is rock solid evidence