Climate Change Controversy – Missing the Wood for the Trees

Over the past few decades, weather patterns have changed noticeably. Free-flowing rivers have slowed considerably due to pollution and sludge; or reduced to a trickle; or even disappeared from the earth. While a welter of causes is responsible, climate change is undoubtedly an underlying cause. That’s what most people believed – until the Climategate scandal broke, giving sceptics the leeway to claim that global warming is a hoax. 

Despite Climategate, human-induced global warming is a real threat. Let not the IPCC-Pachauri fax paus permit vested interests to sabotage mitigation efforts by saying global warming is a hoax. As a science, climate change is in its infancy and open to abuse by some. Yet the abuse humans heap on Mother Earth is real. One outcome is vanishing topsoil. Let not the errors and misdeeds of a few scientists make us miss the wood for the trees.  Else the consequences will be disastrous.