O Global Warming, Where Art Thou?

A friend of mine just shared this video with me:


In the video, professor Bob Carter, rebuts global warming as something natural within earth's history and criticizes the hype that is driving money into stopping global warming, which could be focused on other importante matters, such as getting potable water or basic sanitation to the people that still don't have access to it.
I must agree that this is the first "scientific information" that I've encountered that dispels human responsibility in global warming, so I really don't know what to think of it. I'm divided between believing in this one man or the crowd's current meme, dammit... I must be human! :) Well... only one way out of it: I'll be stoic about it.

Either way, I'm not going to "wish" the money was being spent otherwise. It's plain counterproductive: no matter how hard I clapped the heels of my shoes Bush ain't going back to Texas and not invade Iraq for its oil.

The "global warming" hype has come to stay and I don't think that's a bad thing!
It's bringing environmental awareness to the mind of everyone (children being the important ones to mind about), and by doing so it's improving humanity's relationship with its surrounding environment and species. And other than educating human beings into becoming well behaved animals, the big advantage is that the current trend is breaking down the big oil lobbies and gettting fuel efficiency to everyone's mind. New technologies are popping up everyday and this will lead in the medium term to the elimination of oil dependency among nations.

Why is that important?
Dependency on natural resources has been fueling human conflict for ages. Oil, diamonds, gold... all of these have lead to blood shedding between neighbours (either people or countries).
Getting something into width spread human focus in hard (unless your get nasty on an oval room) so we better take advantage of this current hype to reduce this one cause of human greed.

As for the water issue, when oil is out of the way the next conflict will be on water - which will correspond to the "water shortage" hype.
We just have to make the most of each worldwide hype to help "shift democracies into acting" on problems, one problem at a time.