1 The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo a few years ago produced enough atmospheric ash that the world's temperatures dropped a bit. This eruption may have the same effect. Of course, Greta Thunberg will have fits...

2 Yep. Aerosols do indeed reduce planetary temperatures.

It was the basis of the "global cooling" scare, I might add; industrial emissions dimming the sunlight and cooling the Earth. When that didn't happen they switched immediately to global warming. The same people promoted both. That should tell you how this is political and not scientific.

3 That's why one should never trust a zealot.

4 Exactly. But we do because the media does and that for political and not scientific reasons.

5 I think that "we" are becoming smarter and rejecting the zealots. Dr. Fauci is only listened to by the Democrats. And it's pretty evident to intelligent people that (1) the earth is not warming significantly and (2) if it were, our efforts to combat it are laughably inept and doomed to failure.

With all this Climate Change foo-fraw, nobody (to my knowledge) has ever articulated what an ideal temperature would be, and why, except that they apparently want it to stay where it is. 

6 Exactly; what is the ideal temperature? Seems to me the Jurassic was ideal, with jungles in Antarctica and Baffin Island. What we are living in now in the late Holocene is what is abnormal. We're just warming back up to a more ideal temperature, it seems to me.

7 The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo a few years ago produced enough atmospheric ash that the world's temperatures dropped a bit. This eruption may have the same effect. Of course, Greta Thunberg will have fits...