What can we, the ordinary people, learn from the diverse and sometimes contradictory data about climate change we are bombarded with?

The global picture about carbon is slowly emerging. It is stored in sea, earth, plants, and animals. Nature has kept the balance between carbon capture and release. However, during the past few centuries, especially the last one, man has unearthed and burned stored carbon in enormous quantities. What nature stored underground, man has brought to the surface and used for fuel, polluting the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other harmful gases. When you think of it—it’s a stupid thing to do!

The process has been accelerated and compounded by industrialization, modernization, and population explosion. For too long humanity ignored and denied the adverse consequences of this unwise practice. Alarming signs of catastrophic natural disasters are becoming self-evident.

Many alternatives for fossil fuels have been suggested and tested. The use of food sources for this purpose has quickly boomeranged on the world, putting millions of poor people in jeopardy due to escalating food prices. The increasing fuel demands from the east, accompanied by wide-spread crop failures, have exacerbated the looming food crisis.

The only viable bio-fuels seem to be those derived from inexhaustible sources such as garbage and excrement. Other under-utilized natural sources of energy are wind, sun, and water. The endless rolling of the waves and the rise and fall of the tides are virtually still untapped.

Seventy percent of the earth is covered by water—many places five kilometers deep. Why has this abundant source of HYDROGEN received so little attention? It is unmistakably the cleanest fuel available. By sending electricity (from a clean source) through water it is turned into hydrogen and oxygen. No harmful by-products. When the hydrogen is burned it unites with oxygen, forming water. Again no harmful by-products.

So? Why not convert to hydrogen on big scale? The price of oil will drop dramatically, our dependence on fossil fuels will diminish sharply, and air-pollution will be reduced to acceptable levels.

At this point in the argument a strange yes-but game ignites.