re: #247 calcajun

I think you can distill it even further.

Is the climate changing? Yes, it’s changing just like it always has.
Are we humans doing anything to make it worse? The jury is still out on that one. So before we go wrecking the economies of the developed world—let’s get a little more data.

BTW—I am a strong believer in weaning the west off the oil teat. As with steam engines, I think that we have hit the limit of the practical capacity of IC engines and it is time for the next stage in engineering evolution.

Yep, it’s pretty elementary physics, and demonstrable. Without the greenhouse effect the oceans would be frozen to an amazing depth. The question remaining is: Is our pollution staving off the next ice age, or is our pollution tipping the current interglacial period into a hothouse planet phase?