Golly gee, Mach, I am happy that you are back to normal. Since your posts are over 2:20 apart, I will just assume you get really good lunch breaks.
You just don't get it, do you. The world is interconnected, and changing one part changes others. You yourself recognized this in so many ways - your zoning analogy(getting really personal there), melting polar caps raising seas levels, etc. Then you think you can change the Sahara in a vacuum. Whether it is the Sahara, the Gobi, the Sonoran, or any other desert, changing the nature of the desert changes weather patterns I guess that is like fighting fire with fire - fight climate changes with other climate changes. Once we start juggling all these climate changes, I think unintended consequences will cause us to do more and more and more until the system collapses.
Edit: Examples - rabbits in australia, kudzu, fire ants, killing the yellowstone wolves, etc.
Do you think there were no El Ninos before the Spanish came to California? Most of what is happening is a natural process, but the thrust of the GW movement is to try and stop this natural change in its tracks - to lock the Earth into the same weather pattern as 30 years ago. Not only is that not possible, IMO, but the cure could end up worse than the disease. The real crisis it that it will affect people adversely economically for the first time in history. If you just wanted to reverse the small percentage that is man-caused, fine, but that won't stop the glaciers from melting, etc. The only way to stop the melting, etc., is to stop the natural warming cycle. Yes, let us control nature. No hubris there. The flaw in the GW movement is the thought that the Earth will return to stability once we cancel the effect of modern man, when in truth the world's climate has never been stable.
As for my post as being one ridiculing the idea of solving global warming, it really is more of one riduculing the Chicken Littles who are running around saying the science is proven, don't let those other people speak, and act now, worry about consequences later.
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