Charles Owen`s ”Need to confront global warming” seems to be driven more by emotionalism than by any degree of scientific certainty. The Earth and its atmosphere are a very complex nonlinear environment with myriad parameters that make it difficult to model.
It`s also interesting to note that based on the record of past interglacial ages, the Earth may soon enter a glacial period. Moreover, though we might with some degree of uncertainty determine the Earth`s heat balance today, it is rather silly to believe we can compare today`s data with that of a century ago, with its archaic technology and scanty data, and then project the degree of global warming in the next 50 or 100 years.
If and when global warming does occur, its effects will awaken humanity to the realization that a person burning the jungle in the Amazon can affect the quality of life of all the other inhabitants.
