No, you can make the temperature appear to be going down for short periods of time by carefully cherry picking the data. If the temperature actually went down, we would see the melting slow down instead of continuing to accelerate.

Where is someone suggesting to curtail economic activity? To reduce carbon dioxide emissions, we have been developing alternative energy sources and improving energy efficiency, both of which can benefit the economy. We're trying to avoid economic disaster, not cause it.

I've been reading the news, too, and I seem to recall many stories of climatologists underestimating the effects of global warming. take, for example, this article which lists many examples.

The warming we're seeing is not just recovering from an ice age.

We're not trying to keep the temperature fixed at some ideal stable point. We're trying to avoid rapid catastrophic warming of several degrees Celsius in the space of a century or less.

I'm not "making a case". You asked some valid questions and I tried to point you to a site that addresses those questions. Sorry!

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The trouble is that the rate that we are emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere far exceeds the rate at which plants can absorb it.

Climatologists have been warning about warming for many decades and what we've observed is the warming that was predicted. That seems to be the opposite of "totally wrong" to me.

See the temperature escalator I mention above.

You're referring to the temperature escalator. According to the escalator, it's always cooling!

That's precisely the problem. The warming isn't going to cause much of a problem for most people old enough to post here. By the time the problems get too bad to ignore, we're already committed to even more problems, because the excess carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. That's why we keep getting these warnings, so we can avoid those problems before it's too late.

About a decade ago.

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