[blam]

I thought that humans were causing all the climate changes? Hmmmm.

[alloysteel]

It would require the development of sufficient power to displace really HUGE portions of the earth's lithosphere and hydrosphere and atmosphere, for mankind to make more than a miniscule change in any aspect of that vast combination of physics, chemistry, and biology that constitute the climate-forming factors that control the weather situations across the face of the planet. A simple pulse of excess electromagnetic energy from our sun, or a shifting tectonic plate beneath a continental shelf, would transform the face of our earth far more than all the industrial activities that have already occurred, or may be reasonably expected to be undertaken within the next century or two. By then, one would expect that technology would have advanced to a point that any massive displacement would be mitigated by corrective steps to counterbalance the detrimental effects anticipated, In most cases, the corrective steps are being applied right along with the advancing technology even as we speak.

[Eala]

In addition, since the oceans are the biggest factor driving global weather, doubling the influx of fresh water will demand that global climate models must be restructured as well.

So all the "models" by which global worming is predicted are fatally flawed. Well, well...

[curmudgeonII]

Forty million years ago, the global climate changed from the steamy world of the dinosaurs to the cooler world of today

I was under the impression that the dinosaurs went Kaput a little longer than forty million years ago.

[Old Professer]

Homeostasis is the Golden Fleece of science; alas, it likely will remain illusory.

[Bob Evans]

"I thought that humans were causing all the climate changes? Hmmmm."

Not unless Humans were more advanced thousands of years ago!

The Ice cores have shown that there is a cycle with spikes both to the warm and the cold going back quite some time. We might be speeding this cycle up, but we are definitely not the cause!