[kabar]

If you accept AGW as a fact, you also seem to imply that man can control climate change. Similarly, I assume that there can be AGC [C for cooling]. If man has such a determinate impact on the temperature of the earth, then I assume Man can attach what amounts to a thermostat on the earth's climate and dial up the ideal temperature. He can not.

From what I have read on the subject, what I find disturbing is how little impact man will have on climate change even if we do everything the Gore-bots want. Our efforts would be better spent on adapting to the effects of global warming than believing we can control it.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

...then I assume Man can attach what amounts to a thermostat on the earth's climate and dial up the ideal temperature. He can not.

There are a number of technically feasible proposals to deliberately alter the global climate, most at the moment directed toward cooling it if we should find ourselves in a run-away warming situation. The orbital reflectors proposed by Jim Rutt and others - which could be in place an operating within a decade for less we currently spend on major programs such as ABM systems - are one example.

Of course, such efforts might have unpredictable results - as might our current unplanned tinkering with the Earth's atmosphere.