Got to agree arran, on the case of technology/science your bang on, science where you want it.

Maybe the term global warming is a bit wrong, yes the world is warming up but it dosent just mean that everythings going to get warmer, which is what a lot of people point out, "ohh its snowing here and it shouldent be as its summer, therefore global warming is a load if rubbish" the warming of the earth causes a lot of extreme weather, hence the strange weather. Although I do have to say that the world has had its own changing weather, ice ages, hot spots etc before we tinkered with it, but I feel that were accelerating it.

The debate of carbon footprint is another one thats being banded about a bit wrongly in my humbe opinion, that study proves it. Its like saying that windfarms are not environmentaly friendly as the use up resource and carbon building them and then might take say ohhhh 20 years before they ofset their carbon emissions compared to fossil fuels (that's not set in a report/article its just me giving an example), come on think of the bigger picture,

The carbon footprint to me, people are using it as a instant hit like that article saying that as well as the other parts saying about paperbags compared to plastic ones, if you went and extended it to say 100 years in the future when oil is as scarse as rocking horse poop then I bet that it wouldent be the case, weve got limited resource that we need to utilise it to make the next big leap in technology, such as organic polymers, alternate fules etc. Although I did read a article that said if we went to bio fuels then the world wouldnet have enough farmland to both feed the human race and provide fuels, again limited resource....

To quote a famous cyborg "its in your nature to destroy yourselves"