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  It is a far greater arrogance to assume that we can continue to wipe out forests, gouge huge chunks out of the earth, cover the soil with concrete and drain every possible underground resource without it having an effect on the planet.
  During the seventeenth century the Thames used to freeze over, not because of a mini-ice age but because it was filled with rubbish and pollution while man made constrictions reduced the flow. It stopped doing it when the great fire cleared most of the offenders.
  In the 1960's a river in America spontaniously combusted because of the level of pollution. The event gave its name to an underground magazine "the Burning River News'. Most people over 40 will remember assuming that all public buildings were supposed to be black. They were that colour from the same pollutants that were causing large scale bronchial problems.
  It does not matter how cyclical climate change is there can be no sensible doubt that mans actions do nothing to mitigate it and can, in fact, only worsen it.
  As for mankind surviving because we are 'adaptable', if we find it impossible to change even the smallest habits without arguing as to whether or not it's a con there can be little hope in us coping with the major changes that climate change (whatever the cause) will bring.

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