Originally Posted by sperbonzo

I understand the idea perfectly. But what you might not understand is that the earth has warmed and cooled many many times over it's life, and it will continue to do so whether we dump CO2 into the atmosphere or not. The warming and cooling over the last 15,000 years alone is FAR more extreme than anything that we have gone through, and there were no SUV's driving around back then.

Carefully note the first graph:



Do you notice all of those MUCH more extreme changes over the last few thousand years that had nothing to do with Human CO2 emissions?


The only thing we should be focused on is dealing with the inevitable climate change and adapting to it's affects, because we can't stop it. If we were all forced to stop producing CO2 tomorrow, (and after the subsequent destruction of most of the wealth on the planet and the starvation of billions), the climate would KEEP ON CHANGING, and doing things that reduce wealth and the ability to produce new technology will actually hurt our chances of adapting and surviving those changes.