I believe Mike S is right in his statements on the enviroment and how we should live with it.
I think the hysteria around on the casue of global warnming come with the interpretation and factuation of statistics. These can be made to say anything if you only choose to look at certain correlations.
Take this scenario
The people dying on our roads have dropped significantly over the last 30 years. The power of car engines and the speeds these cars can reach have almost double in that time frame. Following the CO2 model of correlation QED make cars with 500kw plus engines that can all do 300km/h and our road death toll could be 0 in 10 years.
We know this will not happen because as intelligent people we understand the other forces that go into the equation.
We understand roadsafety, car design, attitude, skill, training, etc all play a part in the outcome, and this is less complex than our environment and climate, so why is only ONE factor being blamed for the change?