Freemanspeak: Climate Change I - Introduction

I feel a need to publish some thoughts on Climate Change. Climate change has developed socially into an extremely complex issue.
I will take a stand immediately by saying that I am cynical of climate change caused by man which will lead to a catastrophic future for all of us. Perhaps instead of cynical it may be preferable for me to say I am yet to be convinced.
This little set of articles will hopefully enable me to out my thoughts on the climate change subject somewhere so that in the future I can look back and see how my analytical process is proceeding.
My preferences lie in analysis through scholarship of Sociology and Science and Technology (concentrating on Scientific Controversies). To stop me writing a huge single post on the subject I am going to divide it up. There is no plan as to how I am going to analyse this subject as I am one in favour of the organic growth of thought in relation to new media and social analysis. I will simply put a heading of the general subject I am looking at.
I can see arguments for the whole climate change issue containing many opportunities to re-inforce capitalism and profit from something new. Fair enough, science is doing a lot of research on climate change and passing this information on to anybody that is interested. A problem lies in that scientists are healthily debating causes of climate change within their particular scientific communities but when the issue is taken out of the scientific domain and placed into the hands of policy makers things change.
The issues of climate change are impacting upon societies and with globalisation and modern communication means the impacts are world wide. I am going to try to make some sort of sense of it through this small series of posts.