Thanks to Chasmyn, I was news-surfing tonight, and found many interesting things. Firstly, I like Dean more and more as my potential President. Secondly, never stick a weiner through a fence. And thirdly, people are too short sighted.

Today's Geology Lesson
People live on a hundred year scale. We can all easily picture 100 years. It has meaning for us.
This planet, and for that matter the universe, does not move on a hundred year scale. To us, geologic time moves very slowly. I don't believe the planet bothers to mark time.
Here's where I'm going with this: Carbon Dioxide -2 oxygen molecules bonded to one carbon molecule- likes to sit and be stagnant. It's it's nature, one could say. The CO2 we've been putting in the atmosphere since we figured out how to make fire goes somewhere. We were taught in school that it gets separated by plants as they create food -according to their nature. The textbooks lie.
Most CO2 goes into the ocean. A lot of it is processed by plankton, our main source of free oxygen. The rest settles to the bottom of the ocean. The pressure of the water is so great down there, that the CO2 can't re-enter the cycle. Instead, it happily nestles itself into the earth's crust. When it does this, a strange thing happens... It cools the earth by a miniscule amount. That's right! You read it here first, folks. "Global Warming" will kill this planet by freezing it. It's all about energy, and where it goes. A side effect of energy transferrance is heat (In imprecise terms), when energy stagnates, there's no heat.
This won't happen in the next thirty years. It will take tens of thousands of years to be noticeable. And it's already happening. We can't stop the damage we've already done with current technology, so suck it up and try something new if you wanna save the planet. By the way, don't blame America. Don't blame Europe. Blame the industrial revlution.

When my mother was a child (1950's) one of her chores was to wash the windowsills every day in the winter. St. Louisans burned coal to heat their homes. (so did everybody else in any industrialized nation) The pollution was so bad, you could literally wipe it off any surface. It turned everything black. People swept their sidewalks, not because they were neat-freaks, but because they wanted to see their sidewalks.

Not that pollution levels are acceptable today. They're not. But the damage has been going on for a long time, and the Earth in her gentle, subtle way has been picking up after us -though it costs her own life force (heat) to do it.
What a good mother we have.

Did I disturb you? Well, don't worry about it. I'm just one more internet fruitcake trying to get my version of reality across. Your children's children will have plenty of ocean to play in before it all reverts to ice. And think how few earthquakes and volcanoes our far-flung decendants will have to worry about. After all, heat is what makes the plates shift. If it cools down enough, the whole process will grind to a halt.