Obviously installing scrubbers in a coal plant, or changing legislation for car emissions, or putting up a wind farm, or researching battery technologies, upgrading electrical infrastructure, rebates for locally grown food/greenhouses, green-houses, reducing water use, recycling e-waste properly, reclaiming tailing ponds, etc. will destroy the economy.

Nothing can be done! The only obvious solution is to OBLITERATE EVERYTHING!

I realize you see everyone else around you as an extremist. However, as others have eloquently pointed out, why not start somewhere and work to improve. Like middle ground, like every argument everywhere at any time. How many things that are complex are simply yes/no?

You have real science. Read the IPCC report. They are using a very long bit of history with proxy data.

Also, if you're going to repeat tired phrases like "worship at the altar of the religion of climate change", at least get it right.

As I've said elsewhere, why do you think the Hadean Eon (or even much of the Precambian) matters to current climate? Most geologists estimate the temperature was 230 C. Which, you must love saying, was the hottest year on record :P

(d'accord)

(Stereotyping): But wait, are there electric armour-plated Escalades with gun racks?

Further; electric cars are a great start, but not enough to eliminate foreign oil dependency. The Americans will then also need electric tanks, electric planes, electric oil and gas and coal plants, and electric petrochemicals, plastics. I'm sure that oil has other uses.

Because if it's shrinking, they mean year after year. As in, you get 1000 m^3 of water the first year when summer comes around and there's melt. The next year, 800 m^3, etc.

Glad you asked the question and weren't misled by interpreting the language incorrectly.

While it is a factor, it isn't the sole cause. The Canadian Government issued a ton of grants and a lot of material was published. From people I knew that worked directly on those papers, they said the general problem was global warming and warmer winters coupled with other factors as you have mentioned (forests of the same age, lack of fires, etc.).

Here is a list of the publications:
http://mpb.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/archive/projects/completed_e.html

"...ponderosa, lodgepole, Scotch and limber pine trees"

I live near some of these areas. Driving through the mountains doesn't look like some trees are dead. It looks like a forest fire (from wiki; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yoho_National_Park_of_Canada.jpg, and some places look much worse), or they're all red (under extreme stress and will die soon).

Lying liars are the worst kind :P

You missed something in your last sentence.

The warmest year was obviously during the Hadean Eon. However, it is also obviously not relevant. At all.

Planetary Action 8: Centripetal Motion
(All celestial bodies depicted are over 4.5 billion years of age)

Everyone says that being more green or what have you would utterly destroy the world economy, sending us into a terrible depression, sky afire, cats and dogs getting along; have you seen any numbers... you know, anywhere, from any side?

The most reasonable I've heard is 1% of global wealth spent on environmental activities (mostly shouldered by wealth countries, so (0.01 / 0.90) * national GDP for wealthy countries). I'm no economist, but if 1% of the world's wealth suddenly vanished, would the economy spiral downward and destroy modern civilization?

Example. Compare the U.S. Iraq War (Operation Enduring Freedom), estimated at $1.9 trillion (admittedly, over several years), compared to the current estimate of world GDP, ~$58 trillion.

Hippie eukaryote lover! We should never believe you!

Trademarks also help the company establish trust and brand recognition. Consumers don't file for trademarks, but they get the benefit of knowing who they're dealing with. It works both ways.

(I posted this previously before I logged in)

Correction; Kleenex isn't a genericized trademark, but its close. Still illustrates what I was going for though, as other commenters have pointed out.