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I was recently made aware of an extensive list of Scientists who refute Global
Warming/Climate Change. I am currently sourcing that document and will provide a
link as soon as it becomes available.

In the meantime, I have replied to them below:

I am not a scientist and my first glimmer of climate change came in 1998 when
there was a really big heat wave. The shallow waters of Picnic Bay on Magnetic
Island was too hot to walk into without burning your feet. I lived in the
tropics of Qld, Australia, on an island surrounded by incredibly beautiful and
diverse inshore coral reefs. Over the next two years many of these inshore reefs
began to bleach and crumble. Then algae took hold. What was left (particularly
in the shallower waters) was quickly suffocated by a forest of seaweed and
turned into a muddy slush when the seaweed that fed off it ran out of fuel and
was washed away by a minor cyclone. Said seaweed was then washed ashore and
protected the trees roots (before it was cleaned up) which were badly exposed by
the disappearing sand lines.

These sand lines continue to disappear on every beach I have visited in Qld over
the last ten years or so. I don’t know where the sand is going, but it is
rather amusing to watch the bulldozers attempt to put it all back year after
year while the tides continue to grow higher and ever higher…

I watch this happening with my own eyes and try and understand why it is
happening. It is very sad to witness first hand. It is not confined to any one
particular beach but all of the beaches I have visited (even the ones with no
continual human occupation).

I began to learn back in 1998 about global warming and climate change. Now, I do
not dispute it. I just hope that there is time left for humanity to make the
changes needed in order to survive as a species. Many have already lost their
lives. I feel great sadness for their loss. Many more will perish in the not too
distant future, particularly if we continue to deny what is happening before our
very eyes.
see: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25555143-1702,00.html

I want a future for my children. I would like to ask those who remain in denial,
what harm is there to TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION NOW?

Natural or man made...does it matter?

What harm (apart from loss of income to multi-national corporations) will become
this planet we all share, if we move AWAY from polluting industries and INTO a
clean energy future? Whether the climate change/global warming scientists
"preachers" are all full of hot air, or the others are “big industry” paid
liars, there will be A LOT LESS HARM DONE to humanity and the home we all share
if we clean up our act now.

Might I add that it is also ignorant and foolish to ignore the impact of
multi-national corporations on our planet. Their retrenched employees (often
paid off with the minimum possible) which has been ... to date... to ensure
their shareholders get a nice, fat, continual return on investment and control
of market share, is ensured by the fattest and most heartless.

Take a look now at what is now happening to those same shareholders... their
retirement funds not up in smoke but lining the pockets of a small handful of
CEO's and crooked politicians.

Time is here and now to get out of bed with multi-nationals, crooked politicians
and their reckless behaviours of despoiling our planet for a quick buck ... it
just makes the thin starve and fat obese... whilst continuously ignoring the
fate of our children's futures.

No matter who or what you believe, cleaning up our act can do us no harm.