Quick, Someone Clearfell the Amazon Forests!

Scientists have found that plants are one of the culprits of global warming - releasing 10 to 30% of all Methane into the atmosphere. Which makes me question whether Climate Change is a man-made phenonomaen as many claim. (Although I think human activity is effecting rates of change.)

Climate Change is one of these interesting topics where I think the media gets in the way of the actual science. There is no doubt that the world is getting warmer - records confirm this. But there are other considerations.

Seven Hundred to Three hundred years ago, the world was in the grip of a Mini Ice Age. What caused it is not fully understood, although Solar Activity or Volcanic Activity (or both) may have been the cause. It's end in the middle of the 19th Century is also a mystery, although it's reasonable to assume that whatever caused the Ice, also is responsible for the warming at that time.

For 500 years before that, there was the Medieval Warm Period - and the world was warmer than it is today. The Romans actually had a sucessful Wine Industry in England!

So Climate Change may be a natural process, and accuratelty predicting trends over the next few decades could be scienctist biggest challenge - because regardless of what causes Climate Change we will have to live with it's consequences.