Long cold winter of surviving financially

Long cold winter of surviving financially. Not only is the weather a problem this time of year but finances can be hit just as hard. If you are like me and can't wait for some sunshine and some extra money from somewhere else. Then lets keep going to achieve but weather and financial goals, come on the sunshine.

It's a Beautiful Day

It's a Beautiful Day. Today is one of the best days weather wise in months. Oh how a little bit of sunshine can perk you up.

Man blamed for Global warming

Hopefully, the majority of us already knew this, but Friday's report on global warming from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) puts mankind firmly in the frame for the increasing rate of global warming.

According to the report, mankind's industrial activity since the mid twentieth century has almost certainly been the main catalyst in global warming. In fact, the report states this industrial activity as being 'very likely' the main contributor - more definite than the last report in 2001 where it was 'likely' to be the cause. This means the scientists involved now believe that there is now a greater than 90% chance that human industrial activity has been the main driver of global warming and climate change. Ok, most of us had this sussed but the importance of this report is that placing the blame unequivocably with humans, and backing it up with scientific fact, means governments MUST sit up, take notice and DO Something.

Representatives from 113 governments – including the United States – signed off on the summary's conclusions, so it now seems that world leaders cannot claim they don't know enough to make decisive moves against climate change as the report covers clearly the consequences to be seen now and in the future. The IPCC report should surely be the biggest and most important item on any government agenda - that remains to be seen.

Its findings concern the future of the entire planet for generations to come and it would be callous and beyond careless of us to disregard this impact simply because we may not be alive to personally experience the more devastating effects of our legacy - let's hope policymakers globally feel the same and make moves NOW to tackle this issue.

Of course, the magintitude of the problem raises almost mind-boggling challenges but goverments MUST rise to these, and we, as keepers of the planet should find out as much as possible about what we can do, we need to think outside of our own locality and consider the worldwide implicatoins of rising sea-levels, tropical cyclones and much more devastating changes ahead.