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Dam, you may have your doubts about how much CO2 is contributing to Global Warming and of course you are welcome to express them and challenge me, because clearly my doubts are not as strong as yours. At least we can agree on one thing, GW is real.

I am not closed to the possibility that the sun may be a cause of it, but at the same time, I am already convinced, as is the ICCP, that human activity is a major contributing factor. We here in St. Maarten don't really see how bad smog and pollution from cars, factories and power generating is in other parts of the world, although we do get the occasional toxic dust storm from Africa.

In an Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore asked viewer to imagine the earth as a basketball and to then paint it with a coat of varnish. This, he said, is the atmosphere that we live in. Do I really need to post the images of smog and smoke stacks billowing to make my point that it's all a bit like pissing in the swimming pool, if we don't stop then the piss content will continue to rise, making it very unpleasant to swim in.

Is CO2 and burning fossil fuels the only cause of GW? No, that's not what I have said, but I do think it's a major contributor and it is also killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, yearly through illnesses it causes. Please watch this video with top NASA climate scientist James Hansen who explains more about CO2 and climate change.

The technology exists and is within reach to clean up how we produce and use energy, I do not understand your apparent opposition to progress and advancement in these areas. The health and economic effects of CO2 are an argument on their own to reduce and reduce our dependance on fossil fuels.

I'm not going to jeer or harangue you, by all means go right ahead and keep us all informed of the science and stories related to the sun being behind GW, I on the otherhand will continue to inform people of the news and science reports which relate to man's contribution to it. Below is a roundup of news from the past week or two, this first link is to the Wiki page on Greenhouse gases. If you see anything wrong there Dam, please feel free to change it.

I'll start off with Mark Fiore's take on energy innovation in the US, I should add here that the US did just vote to improve fuel economy standards, but not till 2020. The UN reports that the 'renewable revolution' is here and news sources of bio fuels, such as plastic bags are being discovered, an improvement on using food crops. In the US, from milk to meat, US food prices spike upward.

In the Amazon the drought is extreme (Video) and you can find the long term problems of glacier melt being explained here and here.

Unfortunately I am called away just now, below are a few more stories that are worth a read. Dam, please feel free to come and inform us about the sun and the data from studies about it, but please, don't tell me that CO2 and greenhouse gasses are not a problem that needs urgently to be addressed.

Caribdude

Rising Seas to Destroy U.S. Beaches - 22nd June 2007

Arctic spring's 'rapid advance' - 18th June 2007

Environmentally Friendly New Jet Planned - 15th June 2007

Google's drive for clean future - 19th June 2007

Swinging wave device to be tested - 13th June 2007

Carbon trade scheme 'is failing' - 5th June 2007