Human ego blurring human impact

With bushfires in the south of Australia, and flooding in the north, it's time for human ego to get out of the climate change argument so we can all appreciate the seriousness of the situation and get on with living.

No matter which side you are on, the raw facts are the same for everybody:

-The last decade is the hottest since records began
- Carbon Dioxide emissions have increased by 35% since the industrial revolution
- The global air surface temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees celcius in the last century
- 10 of the 11 hottest days recorded since records began in 1850 have occurred after 1995
- 70% of the current warming came before 1940, and 80% of human CO2 emission came after
- In 1996, the UN panel on climate change put out a report saying they found a human fingerprint on global warming. Within months, scientists advising the UN put in a complaint because they'd signed off on a scirence chapter report with 5 statements saying NO human fingerprint had been found. The lead author of that report by the science chapter, Ben Santer, publicly admitted removing he 5 statements and added a different one saying there WAS a human fingerprint.
- Santer is still the lead author for that UN science chapter

Over Christmas, I spent a lot of time with my niece and nephews, the oldest of whom is 6, and the fights they had remind me of the fight going on for who is responsible for climate change, and my advice for both parties is the same: you're bickering is getting in the way of enjoying yourself. Who cares who's been on the red wiggles car for longer, or whose 250000 year old ice core from greenland has more oxygen isotopes and ice layers? Just stand back and look at things logically - if you get too caught up in who's right and who's wrong, I'll lock the wiggles car in the garage and no one will get a turn.

Yeh, global weather is getting more extreme, and yeh, humans may have caused some degree of it, but we're here for a good time, not a long time, and if Dr Karl's prediction is right, the sun is expanding and will swallow Mercury, probably Venus and maybe Earth and Mars anyway, so lets get going while the going's possible.

The fact that people even understand what "carbon 14 from dead trees and barillium 10 from ice cores - both solar isotopes" means puts us at an advanced level of human understanding, so it's time to stop fighting like 6 year olds and get on with living.