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Paradox,

There are always changes going on. Even for long time delays, there's always the countdown clock reaching zero, hypothetically speaking. It may not be during the next million years, but there will be an extinction level asteroid hitting. The sun will eventually heat up more, pushing the habitable zone out to Mars and eventually beyond.

Man's most immediate threat is always the one that goes on unrecognized as being a threat. In this case, it's man himself attempting to resolve perceived problems which are not understood and are being resolved by those (central planners) who have no clue as to how much or how little is actually known, not that the decisions are based on anything other than what they perceive is in their best personal interests, regardless of consequences for anyone else. Does corn ethanol come to mind here?

There's always been stuff like that going on. Used to be, envy and greed led to invaisions where the invaders put salt in the fields and poisoned the water well wells of their victims, killing or enslaving the survivors.

This notion of rate of change being high or higher than ever before is another assumption. More than one assumption acutally. We don't know whether it is or not as our records are insufficient to tell. To paraphrase a famous quote that comes to mind - It is far easier to believe that something which has happened before, no matter how unlikely, can happen again than it is to believe that something which has never happened before can happen.

If man is causing the current radical warming of the last half century, then it is because we've reduced the particulates and aerosols in our burning of coal and fossil fuels. That means the solution is simply to remove the pollution controls which were supposed to clean up the environment. Also, getting away from natural gas and going back to coal should also help tremendously, as would cutting down more rainforests and turning them into meadows and farmland, or better yet, turning them into deserts would also dramatically improve the warming situation. The fact that those sorts of things are condemned by the most vociferous complainers from the church of AGW implies a serious disconnect, either in their understanding or their desire to actually effect a cure to the problem.

I stumbled across an interesting book on the web earlier this summer. It concerning the problems of replacing the dwindling supplies of fossil fuel with alternate sources that would prove reliable. It was most enlightening, even though it predated the notion of climate change problems. It seems the author and many others were concerned with running out of coal on the short term with no viable alternatives. The book was written in the mid 19th century, before the discovery of oil and gas and far more coal than they could have imagined in their wildest dreams.

It's starting to become evident to more and more that since it is supposedly coming time for tough choices, there's a lot of those choices which aren't on the table at all and most of those choices which are on the table are all about forcing them and their children into a life of slavery or perhaps even extermination.