Amos,

"Surely, if carbon emissions are stimulating the vicious circle of warming, then backing off on carbon emissions is a praiseworthy concept."

BUT not to the extent of ignoring what could be done to help adjust to the changing conditions. AFTER you have the lifeboat, then you can afford to run around looking for open faucets.

"If you have hard data that the cycle of global warming, which is unprecedented over hundreds of thousands of years based on the permafrost record, is attributable to sunspots, I would like to see it."

I stated SOLAR variation, NOT sunspots. The sun is known to be slightly variable: This is one of the root causes of ices ages in the past.


"There are some interesting long-term consequences that are NOT being addressed, however, among them that the great breadbaskets of the temperate zone will follow the example of the Sahara Forest. (:>) )"

WHich NO reduction of CO2 is going to help. I have been observing volcanic plumes from space- are you aware of the TONNAGE of gasses and particulates a major erruption can put in the air? I do not say we should ignore our CO2 emmissions, but to focus on them to the cost of IGNORING all else is more foolish than to ignore them but deal with the effects.

And the Sahara (grasslands) was defoliated by the over-grazing of goats.