[layman]

I think I may be on to something ... a little off subject maybe ... but follow my logic. Cows eat grass ... dinosaurs ate grass. Cows leave little farts ... dinosaurs left really, really big farts. Little cow farts are destroying the planet ... really, really big dinosaur farts overwhelmed the fragile ecosystem, the result being that the dinosaurs farted themselves out of existence. Let that be a lesson to those of you who poo-poo (pun intended) the chicken-little crowd.

[Fitzcarraldo]

The Earth is a giant feedback control system - it has to be to counter emissions from volcanic eruptions, solar insolation variations, etc. Mankind is a very minor factor and the main debate is really over the size of that factor.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think I may be on to something ... a little off subject maybe ... but follow my logic. Cows eat grass ... dinosaurs ate grass. Cows leave little farts ... dinosaurs left really, really big farts. Little cow farts are destroying the planet ... really, really big dinosaur farts overwhelmed the fragile ecosystem, the result being that the dinosaurs farted themselves out of existence. Let that be a lesson to those of you who poo-poo (pun intended) the chicken-little crowd.

ROFL!