[blam]

"At the very least the Romans should be held accountable for the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. That must've bumped global temperatures up by at least a thousandth of a degree."

The 79AD incident was recorderd in tree rings worldwide as a cooling event.

[katana]

You're right, volcanic eruptions usually lead to a cooling trend. More reflection of the suns rays by high altitude particles.

The global warming movement is a neo-pagan farce based on selective science, fixed computer models, and an anti-capitalist and anti-human freedom political agenda. The warming trend has been going on in fits and starts for about ten thousand years (end of the last in a series of ice ages) and will continue until the cycle (again) reverses itself.