
Originally Posted by
eddybear
This helps to illustrate an important point. There are 2 issues here:
i) Is climate change happening?
ii) If yes, is this man-made?
The answer to the first is, I am absolutley certain, yes. Stories from around the world all say the same thing. Even mild-weathered countries like the UK are feeling the effects. When it comes to glaciers, Lambsy is right, that they are meant to melt, but the problem comes when the rate of melting is too high, so that they retreat rather than re-generate fast enough - which is what is happening all over the world.
The second question is trickier, and there are arguments on both sides. But whether or not the climate change is man-made or not, we've got to do something about the effects. People are dying.