As I previously stated, we really don't know the size of the anthropogenic perturbation on the longer term natural climate trend. It could be big or small. I suspect it will be small but, again, we don't know (although some people are convinced it is large).
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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
Tuccillo, the big heater in this whole situation is the Sun, regardless of how the heat is processed when it arrives on Earth.
1. Do you dismiss the effects of the Maunder Effect?
2. We have had ice ages, and the retreat of the ice caps (from as far South as current Kansas) before there were humans on Earth polluting the atmosphere. Why should we not expect Global Cooling and Global Warming to continue regardless of what we do?
3. As resourceful as humans are, shouldn't we able to accommodate ourselves to moderate climate change over the decades? After all, wasn't farming once done in Greenland? With global warming we could do that again.
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