Temperature control gone mad?

Oxfam wants us to:


';Keep the rise in global temperature to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels';


http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/oxfam-details-economic-impact-of-warming/





How are they going to manage this?


What will they do when Mother Nature decides otherwise?


And the proponents say they aren't trying to control the climate!





Apparently the U.S may agree to this proposal!





The lunacy of such proposals astounds me!Temperature control gone mad?
Pre-industrial. Like the little ice age? Why on earth would anyone want that, I wonder.





Its just a tax scheme. With the sunspot cycle going into a phase that usually coincides with cool temperatures, we may yet get to see the fools embarrassed both by cold weather, and a realization that warmer is a good thing. I hope so, I enjoy seeing fanatical self righteous hypocrites shoot themselves in the foot.Temperature control gone mad?
Your link was very vague about what was actually being proposed. Obviously you can't legislate temperatures and I'd be surprised if anyone is actually proposing that. If there are any concrete proposals associated with this suggestion (and your link didn't really say if there were) then they are probably caps on greenhouse gas emissions, rather than temperatures.





I think people are more trying to keep the climate from getting OUT OF CONTROL than they are of actively controlling the climate.
I agree considering we don't know what the average global temperature has been over the past 12,000 years. Most people want it to be no higher then what it was during the mini ice age when food was scarce and people were revolting.





Considering that every time that man has tried to control the environment he fails. Look at how well we have stopped the annual floods World wide. Look at how nature takes over abandoned areas.
It seems pretty unwise to destroy the remarkably stable climate that has supported the growth of modern human civilisation over the last 12,000 years or so since the last ice age, but with our massive output of greenhouse gases in the last 150 years or so, that is exactly what we're doing. Advising that we stop doing that seems eminently sensible to me.
Lunacy is when deniers deliberately fog the issue by trying to create confusition between control of the climate and prevention of a disaster.
How in the world is those idiots going to adjust the Earth


Thermostat? There is not a big dial made of rock in or on the


Earth surface.


This is pure quackery.