Global Warming - Have We Passed the Point of No Return?

If you spend any time at all watching TV, browsing the web or reading popular magazines, you will have seen many examples of global warming and climate change. Despite the growing amount of information freely available, many people still think of climate change as the "next generations problem" and simply fail to realise how the changing climate is already having a profound impact on our planet and indeed our lives.

Erratic and destructive weather has been on the increase for some time, by destructive weather I mean changing weather patterns that ruin crops causing starvation, that destroy homes and personal possessions, that cost people their lives. This is already happening throughout the world, not just in Africa or Asia, but in the U.S.A. All the experts agree that the main cause of these unpredictable weather patterns is global warming.

The high number of hurricanes and tsunamis really hit the headlines and there is no doubt these are destructive and dangerous. However there is a much more insidious danger in the form of subtly changing weather patterns which are gradually changing factors like rainfall distribution, average temperatures and the glacier formations. Plants and wildlife have evolved for billions of years to thrive and survive in a particular climate, now this climate is changing so fast they cannot adjust.