In the past the world used to be covered with forests and swamps.

During the last 1000 years the amount of forests have been decimated, but it is indeed a stretch to far claim that humans have caused this with lumbering.

Afterall who is not to say that some solar flare is the cause of this miraculously but natural decline in foolage ?

Don't be stupid. Of course does man have the power these days to influence anything that goes on on this earth. We can even totally destroy it within 24 hours if we launched all the H-boms in a wide spread pattern.

The thing at the discussion here is not so much that man with cause the climate of the earth to totally change ONLY due to man made cause but that man triggers some inbalance that could well lead to very rapid and significant changes in the climate that our modern societies can not adjust too in time.

That my friends does not seem to be a far stretched idea. At least it is considered real enough that the Dutch are planning a new series of dykes and coastal defenses to be ready if it does happen. Premature ? Maybe, but better safe then sorry right ? Why allow a New Orleans to happen when you have the means to prevent it ?


Wouter