[reformedliberal]

There are too many feedback mechanisms involved to even consider "dampening", or, if we slip into a mini ice age, to increase global warming. We are adaptable. Our species has survived this cycle before. Today, we also have technology to insulate us even further from these cyclic changes.

These books are good news because they provide credible voices to counter the hysteria. After a while, it is going to be difficult for even the mind-numbed to keep shouting down dissenters as "shills". In fact, IMO, it is great news especially if the Progressives attack everyone who disagrees with them. This will just serve to prove their fascistic agendas to the people who so far have no real opinion. Eventually, the anthropogenic, anti-US, anti-production crowd will obviously be only the 19-25% of the hard left and hopefully, we will begin to see them caricatured as such on SNL, et al.

[edsheppa]

There are too many feedback mechanisms involved to even consider "dampening", or, if we slip into a mini ice age, to increase global warming.

I disagree. A technology which can adjust incident solar radiation several percent up and down could operate on a timescale well inside the timescale of natural climate change. Such a technology could easily be feasible this century.

Whether or not it'd be worth the price is another matter.

[cogitator]

Our species has survived this cycle before. Today, we also have technology to insulate us even further from these cyclic changes.

Our civilizations arose during a period of remarkable climate stability. There are scholarly papers that have indicated civilization could only have arose under such remarkable stability. And technology won't be able to counter the effects of massive crop failures and significant reduction in freshwater resources -- two possible scenarios of rapid global warming. In the following century, accelerated sea level rise could happen if the Greenland ice sheet melts drastically or breaks up, affecting coastal communities globally.