[Sk8r]

I never said that tossing the carbon storage of the Jurassic into the atmosphere in the last dozen decades was benign. However, the discovery of the process of 'charcoaling', which became a major industry in Europe in the middle ages [all those guys living in cottages in the woods in fairy tales] stripped a lot of trees out of the picture and produced a lot of woodsmoke, on an industrial level, and prior to that was the population rise in Europe and Asia that took axes to the forests and slash and burned the forests of 2 continents, among other carbon disasters of the post-glaciation period, plus Thera, and several volcanic disasters---none of these alone was capable of pulling the trigger: try as we would, we could't wreck the atmosphere, but we could shove the big rock a little further toward the downhill skid. What I'm saying is that the turnaround can be fast, it can be difficult to deal with, and there are things we can do about it---possibly. Or possibly not. We could use more research, but that's not going on, on any large scale. The fact is that points rack up both on the side of the 'natural causes' people and on the side of the 'its all our fault' people---and everybody's so busy lining up on their 'side' we haven't yet accepted that we ought to be doing anything in an organized way to deal with the result of it.