There is a quote in a fictional novel I am currently reading (Pompeii: A Novel - Robert Harris) that I found particularly interesting...

Men Mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth is becoming warmer - it must be our fault! The mountain is destroying us - we have not propitiated the gods! It rains too much, it rains too little - a comfort to think that these things are somehow connected to our behavior, that if only we lived a little better, a little more frugally, our virtue would be rewarded. But here was nature, sweeping toward him - unknowable, all-conquering, indifferent - and he saw in her fires the futility of of human pretensions.

Don't misunderstand me - I'm not saying that we don't have something to do with global warming, but at the same time I do think it's a tad conceited to think humans control the planet, that we have all the answers, that the earth is just another large building needing us to manage it's climate control systems...

Food for thought!

Garth