[Tim Skellett]

Originally Posted by carpefile

Stop the fear mongering.

Don't be silly. There is a scientific debate going on on the subject; there is a real problem to be tackled. Just what that problem is comprised of is open to debate; the fact that the problem exists is a fact. Acknowledging that a problem exists is not "fear mongering"; that's just name-calling.

Your arguments just don't hold water, most of them are blatantly incorrect.
There are volcanic eruptions of sufficient magnitude to carry particulate into the troposphere EVERY YEAR, in many years multiple occurrences.

That still does NOT mean they outweigh every year the effects of greenhouse gases pumped by manmade activities into the atmosphere. That is the point. Nor does it obviate the need not to add to the problem.

Investigating climate conditions from the past does indeed have bearing on the present,

Of course it does. That's how scientists determined that global warming was happening in the first place. But it's no excuse for evading the problem, which was the point I made.

The last major global warming was during the 1600's, when the mean temp of the earth was a full 4 degrees Celcius warmer than it is today. This era is commonly called "The Golden Age of the Renaissance".

Actually, the climate change at that time was far more varied than you think. I'll be happy to dig out a full description of changes during that time, including negative ones.

The allegories you use as comparisons are ridiculous. You can't stop droughts, hurricanes, or climate change. The most you can do is prepare to survive them.
You could stop a mugger of course, but that hardly has global impact.

You're not getting the point I made.
The point was, if you have a problem, you deal with it. And you don't make the problem worse.

The very papers submitted by the organizations you reference as the authority on global warming have been refuted by the same scientists who supposedly endorse them.

Really? Please give me the exact scientific paper citations to back up that claim of yours. Because I don't buy that one at all.