Global warming-fact or fiction and how do you propose we tackle it?

[CrashMan]

Well we are going through a natural warming cycle ANY way (there have been numerous warming/cooling cycles in the earth's history, that is unless you are a strict biblical interpreter and think the world is 7000 years old lol)

However, There has been a human contribution as well. The real problem right now isn't the Americas, Europe, or Japan, but in particular China and India.

These 2 countries combined have about 38% of the earth's population, and traditionally the vast majority of the population there didn't drive cars. This is changing however and the environmental impact is going to be something awful.

Infact, and Indian car company is release an extremely cheap car in India (something like $1500 new) to bring automobiles to a huge population that couldn't afford a car previously.

Though the fact that the US is the ONLY country in the world that signed but declined ratification of the Kyoto Protocol is very troubling. Sometimes I want to kick our government right in their collective crotches.