And your solution to this ... ?markfiend wrote:Actually, I think the evidence does suggest that a small part of global warming is from natural meterological cycles, but the vast majority of the effect is caused by CO2 from burning fossil fuels.
I don't see you ditching your car and cutting down on use of electricity, as evidenced by your earlier post about rat-running around LS6. Though, in fairness, you may have a special rain-powered computer which is working overtime at the moment to enable you to keep up your post-count.
We're dependent on fossil fuels; the developing world wants to be able to consume them with the same enthusiasm we do to enable them to live the wealthy industrialised lifestyle that we are refusing to give up. There's far more of them than there are of us, so it's not going to get better.
But this ignores the way in which our society has changed over the centuries. Modern-day Europe would be unrecognisable for someone who grew up before the industrial revolution. They'd probably see it as an apocalyptic vision, dark Satanic mills and all that. We're desperate to save it from being flooded. That's a massive shift in expectations of how our world should look, and climate change will prompt another one.
Once it's partly flooded we'll adapt to that as well. The Daily Mail will moan about Dutch refugees coming over and abusing our system with their liberal attitudes and sudden passion for mountaineering; Kilroy's descendents will rejoice that France has got further away at last; Austria will get a coastline and become a naval power for the first time in its history; Canvey Island will disappear, amid massed indifference.
And life, by and large, will go on. Mostly on top of hills.