[Hebrews 11:6]

My understanding is that we are well overdue for the next cyclical Ice Age, and that man’s cumulative activity over the past several thousand years, including forest-cutting, industrialization, and bovine-ranching, is prolonging its beginning. In that sense, any anthropogenic global warming is a good thing.

[PlateOfShrimp]

Exactly! All one has to do is look at the ice-core records: the relative coolness, flatness, and length of the Holocene interglacial is obvious. In addition to the possible causes you cite, a change in albedo due to the development of agriculture ~8000 years ago is another possibility. I am not sure that we should be jumping all over this guy here - while he is obviously full of it, he has somehow managed to blunder into the truth.

Merry Christmas!

[ChildOfThe60s]

Sorry. It’s mathematically impossible for man to be outputting sufficient gases to affect the balance.

The loonies talk about millions of tons of CO2 as if that is a significant number. It’s not. Not by any stretch. It’s not much more than my raising the level of a full bathtub by spitting into it.

I could dig up the exact numbers later, I’m enjoying a beer at the moment, which takes precedence.