What's the REAL threat to Planet Earth?

Richard Branson Offers $25M Climate Prize:
"British tycoon Sir Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for the scientist who comes up with a way of extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

The Virgin Group chairman was joined by former Vice President Al Gore and other leading environmentalists, as he announced the challenge to find the world's first viable design to capture and remove carbon dioxide from the air."

Global Warming amounts to a 0.7% rise in 100 years. The media seems possessed by this as a threat, but (at best) ambivalent about the real threat caused by terrorism.

Ten questions for Global Warming scaremongers (with gratitude the Mark Belling).

1) The Planet Earth has been around for hundreds of billions of years. The weather conditions have varied so much over the years that continents have drifted and meadows have turned to deserts. How was that possible without man's intervention?

2) With Earth's temperature permanently changing, what makes you so sure that the planet wouldn't be getting microscopically hotter anyway? What makes you think that this planet is currently at the "right" temperature? What is the "right temperature"?

3) How did the ice age come about without man's presence on this planet? How did the dinosaurs become extinct without the industrialised world's rape of Planet Earth and what sort of Aerosols did Noah use to cause the flood?

4) What's with all the snow?

5) What is the more realistic threat to Earth in the short term, a small rise in temperature or Iran having the nuclear bomb?

6) What happened to all the fuss about Global Cooling a few years back? With scientists changing their minds so often, what makes you think they definitely have it right this time?

7) If the damage done is practically irreversible without a return to a pre-industrialised era, wouldn't life be better on a slightly hotter planet anyway? Why destroy our society rather than just adapt to the changes (as man always has). Isn't the panic just being generated to crush Western power? Isn't this all "Socialism by stealth"?

8) Why does the environmental scaremongering lobby seek to vilify, stifle and ridicule anyone who dares voice different conclusions?

9) Why the hell are you so bothered about something that may inconvenience our great, great, grandchildren in 100 years, but not about fascists who want to kill us now?

10) Wouldn't Branson be showing greater care for this planet and its people if he offered money to anyone who screwed up Iran's nuclear programme or someone who killed Zarqawi before an Al Qaeda-bot can detonate a dirty bomb?