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This is a difficult issue since nobody has yet got conclusive proof as to what is or even may be going on. The CPDN project is just one of many studies trying to work out various scenarios as to firstly whether global warming is ocurring (or if we are just into one of those natural blips), and if it is real, what the consequnces might be.

The Day After Tommorrow, was a Hollywood spin based on some scientific concepts. Clearly it needed a level of senstionalism for the film to get audience attention. Whether sea currents could change due to temperature alterations I don't know but the theory seemed credible. However a very interesting thought of rising sea levels was for me quite confused when I saw a TV lecture on Channel 4 over Christmas which suggested that (proven by a simple demonstration using a glass and ice blocks) ice when melted does not change water levels, given that most of the ice infact is submerged. What can affect water density and thus perhaps volume and temperatuire is salinity.

Although we may not yet know or understand the consequences, what must be apparent is that we are consuming the accumulated natural resources of our planet, since industrialisation started, at an ever increasing and unsustainable rate. Many resources evolved over millions of years, yet are being consumed in decades. Simple common sense says that that is unsustainable, in that nothing will be left in generations to come, except the byproducts of our excess consumption. Climate change will most likely only be one of the legacies of this indulgence.