re: #489 Unakite

Respectfully, I think the things you mentioned may have some effect, but much smaller than most people think. Just a cursory review of even recent earth history shows that (relatively) extreme climatological changes occur on larger-scale (think ice ages) and shorter-scale (think medieval warm period from the 10th to 12th century and the little ice age from the 13th to about the 18th century). Given the climate fluctuations that have occurred over the last hundred thousand years (give or take a few) that obviously occurred with minimal anthropogenic input, I think the current hysteria is just background noise.

I am personally not keen on hysteria. If you have seen my other posts on this, I have argued rather strongly that I’m am disgusted with both sets who politicize this debate.

That said I can point you t an awful lot of reputable research that says that the effect is rather large. I am not talking MSM either, but rather in the peer reviewd literature.

As to how large, we do not fully know yet, but there is absolutely no valid research that says it is negligable.