CS writes:
The issue, for me at least, is how much of an effect man can have on the natural fluctuation.
This seems to be the key issue for me, but obviously not so for most global-warming alarmists and detractors. Everything we have learned from evidence of global climate changes in the past indicate that nature steers our biospheric temperatures with rubber bands. One extreme leads to the opposite extreme, just like the seasons, as if there is climatic karma. We may be worried this century about glacial melting and rising oceans, and next century it could be sinking oceans and glaciers burying Nebraska. In other words, instead of worrying about global warming, maybe we should be worried about
the coming ice age. And maybe next century we'll be pumping as many greeenhouse gases into the atmosphere as we can to prevent the Okefenokee Swamp from freezing solid.
The honest-to-goodness truth is that nobody knows what to expect from nature beyond our traditional two-week planning horizon.
”HM