Please read the below article which is not to lengthy and will discuss the temerature changes of the earth throughout history and some of its causes.

http://www.longrangeweather.com/glob...

Now, instead of argueing weather the current warming trend is man made, or even that man has contributed to it in some way; if you read the above article you will see that throughout earths history we warm up, we cool down. At some point we are going to hit another ice age; can't say how big it will be as no one really knows. My question is; should man freak out and spend billions or even trillions of dollars trying to influence the worlds temperatures, (in this case doing something to prevent warming)? What happens if we spend the next few decades spending billions or trillions of dollars trying to impede perceived global warming to only hit an ice age? Do we then turn around and start spending trillions of dollars trying to heat our way out of it? What if the ice age goes on for hundreds of years, or possibly even more?

My point is, is that I think man, (although well meaning), is reacting to percieved man made weather changes and is trying to influence something that it really has not to much control over; and that is even assuming that we are a significant contributing source to climate change, (of which we will never settle argueing here on this forum).

I think man just needs to check himself; back up, and take a look at the big historic long term picture of this and not react to something that in my opinion is a man made crisis to begin with. (The crisis itself being man made, not the earths climate). For all of you of that believe that man is the source of this global warming, what are you going to to when we hit an ice age? Will that be man's fault also? Should we then try to artificially affect global warming to get us out of a naturally occuring cold period for the earth? And if we should try to then heat up the planet so that things warm up; what's the difference between us heating it up artificially and trying to cool it down artificially? If it's mans fault that we have global warming, wouldn't it be man's fault that we have global cooling, (in spite of what history teachs us about the natural warming and cooling cycles of the planet)?

Think about it people...

- 67GTO