Global warming used to be hot topic. Then someday it turned in to 'Climate change'. As I've been thinking about it, one idea kept popping up in my mind. 'Climate change is irrelevant'. This might be a bold statement to make, but let me explain. The definition for climate change, as given by Google is "a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels." 

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Of this definition the first part is undoubtedly true. Climate change is a change in global or regional climate patterns. What causes this, to me, is irrelevant, for two simple reasons. 

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1. There are natural processes we can not influence, like seismic activity and vulcano erruptions

2. Human behaviour regarding the environment is inherently stupid, regardless of climate change

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The first reason is self-explanatory, so I'm not going to bother digging in to it. The second one might just be a bit more interesting, even when the idea behind it is really simple. I think of it this way: "When you start smoking 2 packs of cigarettes per day and you keep increasing this amount, whilst simultaneousely keep removing bits of your lungs, you are exponentionally speeding up your own demise." And basically, ever since the Industrial revolution this is what we have been doing. We have been putting more and more CO2 in the atmosphere, whilst cutting down rainforests. And not to mention the enormeous scale of polution we have caused in a wide variety of ways. It doesn't matter if this causes the climate to change, this behaviour is horrendousely stupid every which way you look at it.

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We are unsettling the (Geo)Carbon Cycle and the Water Cycle on a global scale. Processes like these need to have a balance. Messing with it, is a recipe for disaster. Looking at unusual weather phenomena, that statement is not wrong.