Global Warming... fact, fiction, or a little of both?

I think much of the discussion of Global Warming totalls misses the point. One of the more telling data bits for me is the information gained from ice cores that go back hundreds of thousands of years. These seem to show that the last 10,000 years or so are an anomaly, that the relatively benign and stable climate we have experienced was not the norm, rather abrupt shifts from hot to cold, wet to dry, with rapid onset and reversal more likely.For me, the issue is not whether it is a normal change or one brought about by mankind. For me, the question should be,"If it happened, what would be the effects and how could we prepare so that we can minimize adverse effects?"

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

That might be a nice question for some chilly winter night, but certainly not one of any import IMHO. Well, I have two responses to that. First, I don't see any basis for thinking that. There are some pretty strong indications that CO² is a primary player.But regardless, the changes needed to minimize the adverse imapcts of Global Warming look to be far greater than the trivial things mentioned in Kyoto. And the problems should we return to what appears to be the more normal climate seem far larger than anyone has articulated yet. In fact, IMHO there is a real question whether civilized man could continue under the conditions that seem to have been the norm up until about 10K years ago.One other thing. The idea of Global Warming leading to an ice age is not strange or hard to understand at all. In fact, anyone who cannot see at least one, perhaps more, mechanisms that would cause just that must be living in some vaccuum.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

It might seem that at first.It's likely that the term Global Warming is as bad a moniker as Big Bang. The condition that is more likely is a return to what appears to be normal which a violent shifts between climate stages with short periods and great variability. Okay.One of the major things that seems to maintaining our current stable environment are the great currents, in the Atlantic the warm, noth running Gulf Stream and the cold, slow, bottom current running south from the Arctic. The Arctic current is fresher, colder, heavier and streams along the bottom to upwell near the equator. The Gulf Stream is warm, salty, runs up the east coast of the US and sweeps across to moderate the temperatures in Eastern Canada and Northern Europe.Global warming melts the Arctic Ice. It's possible the extra fresh water melt could turn off the Gulf Stream, block warming, moderating effect. The result could well be Ice Ages, sheets of Ice covering much of Northern Europe that would be frozen today were it not for the Gulf Stream.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Holmes, I get the feeling you've moved into one of your strident phases. If so, fine but just tell us so we can ignore you. What does that have to do with anything I said? Please point to where I brought Venus up. Please point to where I said PEOPLE BAD! Let's work to minimize the harmful effects. Again, I have the feeling that you just plain missed the point. If ice covers where you are it's an Ice Age.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion