The land of the known unknowns

What do we know? And what do we know we don’t know?

That’s pretty much the case with the alleged climate change catastrophe waiting to happen.

In the past five years, global warming has become a word that has spawned an industry, fear, apprehension and a movie with the delightfully scrumptious Jake Gyllenhall.

For most of the time, the effects of this climate changing are bordering on apocalyptic and delivered almost in a evangelistic way.

But, how do we know what will happen?

How are the predictions we make now, going to occur?

We should accept, and perhaps expect that climate change is something we know we can know. I mean, we see it today; meteorology is about as reliable as getting that five bucks from the friend down the hall.

Instead of scaring the wits out of me, and the rest of Australia, why can’t we tone it down a bit?

The scientists are predicting these efforts and effects that climate change will reap but perhaps climate change is not that new after all.

Besides, how did we get out of the Ice Age?

So when push comes to shove, how can we expect to know what will happen when science, and the world itself can change so temperamentally?