Indeed some believe Global Warming is a lot of hot air. Whether or not alternate energy sources will be used in time to make global warming tolerable, getting on with each other, in all our diversity, is good for planet Earth. In our online think tank we have a section on Global Warming because people are talking about it, not because I necessarily believe that mankind's activities is causing the planet to warm, as it appears to warm and cool all by itself over periods of hundreds and thousands of years due to all sorts of interrelated cycles and patters. Believe it or not, the way we drive can have an remarkable impact on the environment and global warming pollution. Under the watchful eye of Prince Albert, the yacht show is part of Monaco's new stance on global warming, and comes shortly after Prince Albert himself travelled to the North Pole in April to highlight the damage he believes global warming is having on the environment. Luckily most of the Global Warming theories are not based on very solid scientific evidence, but our Planet is going through a climate change cycle and this cycle, which is being caused by a series of inter-related cycles are warming areas our Planet among other things. Indeed Urban Heat is an issue, but it is not global warming and it is unwise to infer that these storms are being caused by global warming. That the signature of global warming is present in today's climate. Some environmentalists are blaming it on global warming. Maybe the whole world needs to rethink the level playing field rules over again and then we can sit down and talk about Global Warming, CO2 emissions and the Kyoto Treaty or a more reasonable version of it. Yet also consider that if the US were to stop its pollution then our industrial might would be severely hampered and if China and other nations did not do the same then the playing field would be so far tipped that trade deficits would increase to an alarming rate and even more industry would move to foreign shores. Another result of warming can be seen in the Kenai Peninsula where the largest insect infestation in North America has decimated the growth of white spruce trees. Increased night-time temperatures, occurring at twice the rate of warming of daytime temperatures; - Higher rainfall over many Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitude areas of land; - The Northern Hemisphere is also experiencing an extension in the length of the freeze-free season. If you don't like it very hot then what comes next would be even worse and shouldn't we be talking about global cooling and not global warming? It is unfortunate that liberals are pushing a global warming agenda, which does not exist and using bogus academic reports to back up their political ambitions. If mankind is assisting these changes to occur faster or to a greater degree as pendulum swings, well that indeed is quite problematic for the ongoing viability of the species, as well as all life on Earth. They talk of crop failures, long term droughts, flash floods and re-distribution of giant ice bergs causing changes in the balancing of tectonic plates triggering seismic events, Tsunamis and a host of other issues with sea currents, weather flows and then moving us into an ice age which might last over 10,000 years? Urban heat is one thing mankind is doing by planting concrete everywhere, but those changes in weather flows are generally regional and dissipate.