I get the joy of debunking the hockey stick plot every fall in my freshman Introduction to Chemical Engineering class. That is one day I particularly look forward to.

That's actually a very good theory. When you think about it, all the stuff we use came from the Earth originally. Other than the few tons of spacecraft that we've sent out of Earth Orbit, where can it all go? Back into the Earth of course! So, we'll eventually find a way to use it again! Your theory makes great points! Obviously something the enviro-wacko leftists refuse to understand.

worse, the UN?

Hell, I took one look at the Vostok ice core data and realized that, until or unless someone can explain EXACTLY what caused ALL of the prior major Ice Ages, the core data imply that we're heading for another Ice Age in the 'relatively near future'!

If we're warming the planet with CO2, we may be postponing the next Ice Age for the first time in history! And an Ice Age just might kill more humans and other species than warming! How many billion humans can survive in the 'Tropics', which will become the earth's "Temperate Zone"?

Nice analogy with the Mandelbrot set. I haven't looked at fractals and chaos theory in a while, but you can get chaotic behavior with only two couple ordinary differential equations (ODE's). Climate has many coupled PDE's.

this is the problem with trying to talk with people who support global warming data. They constantly manipulate the data points. If there in fact has been no measurable warming since around 2000, this does not fit their model. Yet, their data is forever adjusted higher. I'm not sure I follow your point, j.

Scientific American was started to show that you could make money as an independent inventor. It has become a political vehicle for the environmental religion of human haters.

Sorry, no. We skeptics dismiss what the AGW Gestapo can't explain and claim it is too "complex" for our little brains. AGW hypothesis: Rising CO2 causes warming. Fact: CO2 is higher than in human history (400ppm); therefore, the earth is warming.

Problem for us small brained creatures: Despite continually rising CO2 levels, the earth has not warmed for nearly two decades.

"But, but...." say the AGW Gestapo, "it's because the heat decided to hide in the deep oceans."
But when we point out record cold, the Polar Vortex (!), the AGW Gestapo says, "That extreme cold is not what global warming is. YOU must take into consideration decadal changes." "But, but," we say, "the last two decades show no warming."

And the AGW Gestapo say, "But the extreme cold is what proves global warming. " Now, we are supposed to take into consideration extremes??

First law of economics: Who controls supply controls price. Find something to control with zero value (CO2), create an artificial value (it warms the earth and warming is bad), control it via carbon credits and taxation and bingo, set the price and AlGore gets richer with the Carbon Exchange and thousands of professors of atmospheric science continue to suck at the nipple of government grants.

My conclusion: The earth is warming, has been for 10,000 years. FACT: Warming causes CO2 to rise, generally, 800 years after the fact. The anthropogenic connection is coincidental, not causative. And, by the way, the greatest advances in improving the quality of human life on earth happened during warming periods.

If you look at the geological record from each of the previous interglacial periods, the present one mirrors closely the temperature patterns of the previous periods, except that each of the previous interglacial periods had a sharp rise in temperatures towards the end of the interglacial period before temperatures plummeted to produce the next glacial period. The spike in temperatures has been preceded typically by increasing instability (extremes of cold and heat). The present interglacial period has lasted longer than most of the previous interglacial periods, and has not had the spike of temperature that is the precursor to the end of the interglacial period. The gulf stream changing course is also a typical precursor to the onset of the next ice age, along with increased melting of the ice in the north polar sea. The only significant differences between the present interglacial period and previous interglacial periods are that it has remained cooler, on the average, than previous interglacial periods, and has lasted longer.

I think there is denialism on the issue not b/c people can't understand but because there's no good solution. The scientific case for anthropogenic climate change is solid, but I haven't seen a solid solution.