[Steve_Seattle]

"If anything we will see reduced solar activity and will be lucky to keep warming."

According to basic science, the long-term prospects for the earth are towards cooling, which at some distant point (barring Divine intervention) will lead to the end of life on earth. So I tend to think of a slight, short-term warming as a good thing, not the unmitigated catastrophe of the global warming doomsayers.

[justa-hairyape]

Unfortunately we cannot trust these recent human derived temperature records. They are about as accurate as political election predictions. Heavily biased and full of inaccurate procedures and methods. Assume the oceans have been cooling since the 1970s, the atmosphere was warming because that cooling ocean heat has to go somewhere. So now we are on the stair step headed down. La Nina and serious atmospheric cold, followed by El Nino and some atmospheric warming and water vapor release, followed by La Nina and serious atmospheric cold. 50 x 50 chance this is the main fall back into the main cold Ice Age period again, which would mean back to the caves for the apes.

[palmer]

Yes, warming is good. Also CO2 is good. Part of the reason for what you said is that new plants have evolved due to CO2 starvation. Those threatened to take us from the ongoing low CO2 to ending the life of less adaptive plants.