"'multilateral' organizations dictating actions to sovereign states"

I find that phrase very amusing considering those on the left advocating governments all adhere to the Kyoto Protocol and Carbon Offsets seem to forget that they have no problems denouncing Governmental Leaders obtaining advice from Religious Leaders.

Any bets how many comments it will be before a Chicken-Littlest jumps into the thread with the "C" word.

Henry, with Canada considering dropping out of Kyoto in favor of President Bush's plan, the Asian-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6), the Kyoto treaty is on it's last legs.

If Kyoto does collapse it will only leave the EU countries supporting it and they have met very few of the treaties targets and as predicted by many has hurt all the economies.

I love your commentary on global warming, but often see statements like: "The only thing which is perfectly clear is that we lack a clear understanding of the problem."
Why is a very slow overall warming trend a "problem"?

Well, golly gee wiz DataSavant if you "lack a clear understanding of the problem" there's no assurance the problem is a problem and not part of a natural cycle.

I wouldn't go so far to call any of this a problem as some of the above comments state, but i wouldn't mind finding out human's role in all of this. It seems that the gorebeciles are pretty quick to blame humans for climate change even though there has never been a stable temperature in this planets history. I have heard it asked, "What is the perfect temperature"? What would we do to make sure that we attain that perfect temperature? If Humans stopped flying, driving cars, stopped using gas and electricity would the climate on this planet do something unprecedented and all of a sudden stabilize? I think not.

I think it is fairly obvious that human impact on this planet is insignificant. We can affect local things sure, such as localized pollution and littering etc... But to make the stretch that human activity is changing our climate, which has always changed as long as this planet has been around, is absurd. It's not only absurd, but it makes it plain as day that it is a blind power grab by the worldwide left and they hope that all you rubes out there will buy into it and demand something be done about this "problem".

marc, you and datasavant are on the same page. Furthermore, we may not even be warming any longer, we may have finished emerging from the Medieval Warm Period, we don't know where on all the wave forms we are. It's silly to think we do know.
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It's pretty "high and mighty" of us to assume we have any affect on our planet in this way. The amount of energy involved in warming the earth even one degree is beyond comprehension.

I dislike envirowackos who believe that if you don't espouse their global warming religion, then you obviously want to pollute. In fact you're so evil you gleefully pour oil over everything.

The Straw Man Argument used by so many of them is insane its worthless.

"we may have finished emerging from the Medieval Warm Period,_kim="

You mean the Viking Era?

Good God, I meant the Little Ice Age. Thanks for the bolt, Thor.
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Hello? It's just Mother Earth taking vengeance on those mean, evil seal hunters. No Blood For Blubber!

The insurgent seas.
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heh. kim, I'm a merchant mariner by profession, and having been through some insurgent seas...

Let's just say its a rockin good time? ;)

When I first read Conrad's 'Typhoon', I'd already been there. I was a passenger on the Hikawa Maru.
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If all 6 billion of us on earth jumped, waved a torch, shouted hallaluia at the same time would the earth react? I doubt it! So much for human caused global impact of anykind!