Yes it's climate change but not as we know it. As Australia debates the carbon dioxide tax to prevent "catastrophic global warming" it appears that the planet is already cooling by itself. 2011 is headed to be one of the coolest on record, but you won't be hearing that from the ABC, the BOM or CSIRO:

The first three months of 2011 have all been below the long term average.

In another development, so-called climate expert Tim Flannery last week shocked us with the news that CO2 hangs around in the atmosphere for up to 1000 years, which was about 50 times what I thought it should be. He sort of shot himself in the foot with that claim though because logically if that were the case there wouldn't be any point doing anything about reducing CO2 emissions- just burn the fossil fuels until they run out in 100 years and let market forces bring about adoption of renewables. After all 90% of the damage has already been done so why impose needless pain for no gain?

Jo Nova has published the real answer on CO2 longevity in the air and it is in fact about 4 years. the fact is that plants, the biosphere and interactions with the ocean routinely absorb billions of tonnes of CO2 every year.

Another fact that most climate activists don't want you to know about is the annual cycle of CO2 concentrations- the "what?" I hear you ask. Yes, every year the concentration in the air varies by 10 ppm on average which is 5 times more than the amount human activity is increasing it by each year. As the northern hemisphere moves into spring a huge amount of dormant land vegetation wakes up and starts sucking vast quantities of CO2 out of the air, and then as winter approaches the vegetation goes back into hibernation and stops removing the CO2 from the atmosphere.

Apparently this annual variation is increasing in size over time as the earth system adjusts to the extra CO2 put out by human activity.

So what does this all tell us?

1. The earth is not heating up
2. The earth is not a fragile little thing as environmentalists want us to believe. It has enormous self-correcting cycles built into it.
3. The God who created the earth knew what He was doing and is far more clever than we give him credit for.