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@Bayern710

Even with all this I still am not a skeptic of man made global warming I just haven't been convince one way or the other. It is also probably a great idea to conduct our affairs as if man made global warming is true. At the very least we would be leaving out kids a better world.



Agreed, and I alluded to the fact that climatologists are probably still learning a LOT, but then one could say that about geologists, physicists and even chemists, simply due to the improving nature of our equipment, computing abilities, sensors, satellites, etc... And when you are talking about an amazingly complex system such as our climate and our environment, even more so. But as you said, and I wholeheartedly agree with, better to proceed with caution than stick our heads in the sand. The human species, and many species on this planet for that matter, have an amazingly narrow tolerance band for the kind of environment that we can handle and cope with. I don't think some people realize just how little of a temperature swing it would take to throw our environment so far out of whack that the human species could rapidly approach mass extinction due to starvation. As much as we think we are all John Wayne, the human species is very fragile, especially given that we are totally dependent on MUCH more fragile systems such as crop species for our survival. With our current planetary population, if we were to have a few years or decades of short growing seasons such as was seen in the Maunder minimum (where there was famine and starvation due to shortened growing seasons), mass starvation would be almost certain. It was certain in the Maunder minimum, and would be greatly exacerbated by the population explosion we've seen in the last century coupled with longer life spans and improved medicines and survivability....