>> "Seeing the trend for only the last 100 years is useless." That's why they don't zoom out the graphs. When you can see a few hundred thousand years, you rea

>> "Seeing the trend for only the last 100 years is useless." That's why they don't zoom out the graphs. When you can see a few hundred thousand years, you realize the planet is currently nowhere near as warm as it has often been in the past, and that the global average temperature fluctuates a lot. The AGW people want to "prevent" the change, but that's not possible, and the debate has been distracting us from the real challenge: how will we survive and thrive despite the change?