"There is no doubt whatsoever that adding CO2 to the atmosphere has a greenhouse effect, that the amount of C O" in the atmosphere has increased considerably in recent history, and that there has been a degfree of global warming."

All true- but there have been periods of global warming before, with NO man-made CO2 emissions.


"The only argument is about whether this is the primary cause for global warming, and whether human activity is te primary cause for the CO2 increase."

Both questions are still in the range of "We don't know"



"Whatever the truith of that, pretty obviously pumping massive quanitities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere seems a very bad idea in the circumstances "

I NEVER said it was a GOOD idea. We should consider stopping it. BUT, we must have other considerations:

1. It WILL NOT STOP global warming.

2. The stopping of CO2 emissions may well destroy the industrial capability that we (mankind) need to SURVIVE the real global warming ( ie, climactic shift) that is taking place.

3. The focus on CO2 has been used by some as a smokescreen to ingore dealing withg the inevitable effects ( flooding, agricultural failure, species extinction) that WILL occur even after we STOP all CO2 emmissions.