"George" wrote in message
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My small nitpicking point is that if the Earth wasn't doing whatever
the Earth did we'd be still in the Wurm Glaciation with most of
Northern America and Europe under several hundred feet of ice.

I think that you and I are really on ths same page.

Basically, warming would be mostly a good thing, since there is prabably
more oxigen trapped in the oceans in the form of disolved CO2 than is free
in the atmosphere; but the most recent warming cycle seems to have passed
and we, as humans, never had much to do with it.

Also, let us not forget that the same political groups were shouting about
global cooling (and the comming ice age) about 30 years ago.

OTOH, CO2 really is plant food; but to make full use of it requires exactly
the sort of large scale water management (and conversion to nuclear energy)
to which the "environmentalists" object.

Peter