[The Great RJ]

The Western economies will be crippled to comply with the fictional need to reduce carbon emissions, yet China and India will pour out even more CO2 and a single volcano will wipe out decades of carbon “savings” in an afternoon. The CO2 based theories of global warming are a pathetic farce.

[palmer]

a single volcano will wipe out decades of carbon “savings” in an afternoon.

The right idea but numbers don't quite add up. A year's worth of "savings" (e.g. 40 Mt "saved" by cutting Germany's electricity use by 10%) was wiped out in an afternoon by Pinatubo. A more constant case is that the Iceland volcano wipes out all of Germany's cuts day-for-day as it erupts, but that's just one volcano of many. Your other point that these "savings" are not savings is good. That 10% "reduction" is based on fraudulent numbers like ignoring the giant subsidies for solar resulting in wasted energy elsewhere. Solar in Germany is just plain stupid.

[expatpat]

It's really just superstition -- a modern version of the old tribal urge to sacrifice virgins when the weather isn't good. Our idiots are crazier because the climate isn't worse -- at least the ancient tribes knew bad weather when it came.