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What we should do about Climate Change implies more than meets the eye.

The human being is an interesting creature: first of it's kind to decide one day to stand up to it's predators and take matters into it's own hands. The first to not only to dream (like all intelligent animals do), but to communicate it's dreams via language, art and myth. Through the ages of mental, social and spiritual evolution, science was born in many an age from Egypt to India - and later chiselled and shaped into the science we have today: cold, hard, no-nonsense empiricism. This very science indeed has become one of the ruling dogmas of our western world, and thus we all think in reductionist terms always looking for an answer that makes the easiest and most logical sense. This of course has it's good points. But to all things in our universe, there is a flip side to the coin.

Climate change is one of those issues that cannot be approached empirically. Nature (and reality for that matter) although mapped and researched extensively is by far not an understood entity. It only takes a splash into the world of quantum physics to see that our very understanding of reality is hanging by a very thin thread. Chaos theory itself has shown that our universe is an infinitely complicated fractal pattern of quantum possibility notably so in our climate.

We are all learning that climate change through years of detailed research is now a reality', and that the assumption is made that the human race is the cause for it. I do not doubt it for a second that we are contributing significantly to it, but the primary cause is very debateable.

Let me just quickly remind you that our current civilization from Egypt to the present supermarket folk is about 4000 years old, and that it is only in the last hundred years that we have really turned the page so to speak. Humankind itself has roughly been on the planet for about 100 000 years, but before that; we are at a bit of a loss. Now enter the Vostok ice drillings from Antarctica: a cylinder of ice drilled from the permafrost of the mysterious South Pole continent, revealing some data of our planet's climate over the past 400 000 years. This data will reveal that the earth has gone through patterns of severe climate changes without the help of humankind. This pattern (especially when studying methane values, methane being a much more potent green house gas than CO2) will reveal that there has been a continuous cycle of roughly 126 000 years of glacial and interglacial

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