Global warming has been a periodic event throughout history. Whether it poses a "challenge" to be "solved" remains to be seen. Warming of the northern zones may be seen as a gift of God before all is said and done.
The putative negative effects of warming, such as inundated shorelines and superstorms, are hypothetical, with huge error factors in the models which predict them, as is the proposition that we human beings have anything to do with it in the frist place.
President Bush is right to counsel patience until we identify with some accuracy what problems, if any, we will have to "solve. If and when that happens, then yes, it will be technology not politics which will serve us best.
Warming of the northern zones may be seen as a gift of God before all is said and done.Weren't all the Club Of Rome Chicken Littles squawking about the Coming Ice Age back in the 70s?