Reply to: It is "nominal" if you discard the Mann's phony hokum stick.
Because we ran out of replies I'm starting a new thread to reply to John McGrew.
What does Michael Mann have to do with any of this? His work is merely corroborating evidence not fundamental to climatology. You may think 1 or 2 degrees C of warming is nominal but when you calculate the total amount of energy required to produce that much temperature rise on Earth it's an immense number.
There may be a lot of divergent opinion of where all this ends up. There are no known similar warming episodes in the past to compare to. Triggering a new glacial period is not something that serious scientists consider likely. It could be if the Gulf Stream shuts down that Western Europe could become considerably cooler but the total energy in the system would still be increasing. Some aspects of the warming we've produced already are not reversible but if we stop adding to the GHG load of the atmosphere we will quit making things worse at an accelerating rate.
A robust solar power grid is distributed to cover a wide area. You may have a front 100 miles long but perhaps it's only 10 or 20 miles wide.
And where do I file my paperwork to get on the government grant gravy train?
