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The great global warming hype is a smoke-screen (pardon the pun). The drives to identify 'carbon footprints' and reduce energy consumption are nothing to do with the natural phenomenon which is happening to our planet. (There are others here who have posted facts and figures which support the natural phenomenon theory so I will not repeat them see Peter Reilly, Joey Goez, Joe Wrighter, Don Willis).

The media hype and environmental campaigns are intended to encourage us to reduce our energy consumption but not because the powers that be really believe we are affecting our climate by our behaviour. But because they know that our fossil fuel resources will just about be depleted within the next 45 to 50 years! And that's at the current rate of consumption. Given that countries in Africa, Indonesia and China are still developing and wanting to provide for their citizens in the same way the western world has, and their desire exploit the global market for goods, that rate of consumption is set to increase.

The rise of industrialisation, mechanisation, modern farming methods and the incredible increase in the world population from 1 billion humans at the time of the discovery of oil (1850's) to 6.5 billion (estimated in July 2007) is all dependant upon the use of fossil fuels. In comparison human population has been reliably estimated to have increased from around half a million in the year 1,000 to the first billion in 1800. A population which could viably be sustained by the practices of the day.

Prior to the discovery of fossil fuels, communities were reliant on their immediate environment for sustenance. They needed trees to cut for wood fires warmth and cooking. They needed to plant and harvest their food locally no major agricultural producers were available to 'transport' food over hundreds of miles to those needing it. And with only a horse and cart for transportation there were limits to how much and how far any surplus could be 'traded'. Local conditions weather variances, outbreaks of infection, blights on crops resulted in a dramatic effect on the populace, there were no hypermarkets where you could go to buy bread and milk if your crops failed or your cow died!

People's life expectancy was shorter, many children died in infancy and populations were limited by the immediate resources at their disposal much like the situations still experienced in the third world today. We now have a society in the western world at least where people live longer, few people

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