I have the answer for global warming. It is a proven method that has worked many, many times in the past.  Get a volcano to erupt. 

If I understand the science correctly, the ash from volcanic eruptions was a major contributor to the last ice age, however it was the heat from the continued eruptions that also eventually thawed us out!
I believe the biggest worry for scientists now is that we are now creating our own "ash clouds" with increased CO2 emissions and if this does cause another ice age, there simply isn't enough volcanic activity these days to thaw us out again.

Same in Germany, in my area I can still remember times in Dec. til Feb. I had to walk trough snow on my way to school for weeklong stretches. Nowadays I don't even bother to buy a set of winter tires for my car no more, because it's only snowing hard enough to cause trouble for maybe two or three days in the winter time, and then the snow won't even last long enough to trouble you on both ways, to work and back home.

I can tread water. I am a scuba diver and I practice at every week with treading water, but that won't ever be long enough
Where I live I am about 5 meters (about 16 feet) under sea level.
But my girlfriend is Austrian, so I'll drive to my in-laws, they would have room for us. Or at least for her and I hope they'll like me enough for me to stay as well
I read a article in a Time like magazine in NED about the killing of (sea) birds in Norway or something. We do have a few wind mills but never enough to supply the whole country. And the enviromentalist who don't want us to use fossil fuels probably are only happy when we will use stone tables to communicate
That'll take us back to the stone age... literally

DAMN HIPPIES

@Rico
That was kinda the point I was making. Men is an accelerator, but mostly this happened decades ago, maybe even at the turn of the century, and I don't mean the last one, around the 1900's.
Offcourse we can start driving fuel efficioent cars, except they won't get you anywhere. And if they do it will take a million years. I am not driving a SUV or something but I drive something between a Volkswagen Passat and an Audi A3. I want to drive comfortable, quick, but also safely. If the car companies would make more attractive hybrids I might have thought about is. But did you know that Toyota Prius is less fuel efficient then some diesels.

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Do you have any evidence for this? And if it were true - so what? Does that mean that we don't try and stop it?

No Paul I don't.
I didn't know I had to have evidence to make a point.
Let me put it differently, I think, so that is just my opinion, the West; mostly the Americas and Europe; made a lot more of CO2 emmissions during our so called 'Golden Age' then nowadays. We tend to watch more on what is being dumped into the air. I think, so again in my opinion, we probably outputed more green house gasses in a few years back then, then possibly now in two times so many years. Just because then we had a lot of heavy and poluting industries. Now, in most parts of the world, these companies have watch what they are outputting, otherwise they'll get fined by the country they're based in, or by the EU?

Okay so I proved myself wrong

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels round the 1900 lets say 2.5billion tons compared to 25billion tons where the world population was around 1.7billion around the 1900's and almost 6billion now. You must be very happy
But what was your point?

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Please give the information that you used as the source of this. I want the name of the publication and the name of the scientists that checked the work.

Well TopGear did a test with the Prius, not the best test obviously being Top Gear, but anyway. I want to call this `exhibit A`
0-60mph (0-100km/h) 13.5sec with a top speed of almost 100mph (160km/h)
Jeremy drove from his house to London (appr 70mp (113km)) in the Prius and this was 45mpg (20km/l) "A normal diesel will do better than that. A lot better" And he drove the same route in a okay okay Volkswagen Lupo diesel doing 75mpg (32km/l).

So everything for the Tasmanian Fruitbat eh

Is it getting warm in here? Must be that global warming thing

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Quoting pauls42:

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Do you have any evidence for this? And if it were true - so what? Does that mean that we don't try and stop it?

No Paul I don't.
I didn't know I had to have evidence to make a point.
Okay so I proved myself wrong

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels round the 1900 lets say 2.5billion tons compared to 25billion tons where the world population was around 1.7billion around the 1900's and almost 6billion now. You must be very happy
But what was your point?

My points were
a) your comment came over as something which was factual. And I didn't believe it. And I wanted to know if you did have some facts which you were quoting or if you weren't.
b) and secondly I was suggesting that it was immaterial when it started since we should be trying to slow it down anyhow.
c) and thirdly you can't easily make a point with made up facts. 

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Well TopGear did a test with the Prius, not the best test obviously being Top Gear, but anyway. I want to call this `exhibit A`
0-60mph (0-100km/h) 13.5sec with a top speed of almost 100mph (160km/h)
Jeremy drove from his house to London (appr 70mp (113km)) in the Prius and this was 45mpg (20km/l) "A normal diesel will do better than that. A lot better" And he drove the same route in a okay okay Volkswagen Lupo diesel doing 75mpg (32km/l).

So everything for the Tasmanian Fruitbat eh

Yes, but, it didn't take a million years. Which was the point I was trying to make.

Global warming is a serious subject and we need to be careful about what 'facts' we state since these could end up being taken as gospel unless challenged.

I don't understand the need for treating this issue as though it is of no importance.

To Skip:  How many scientists think the sun is warming all the planets?  Very, very few I would suspect.

To all others commenting in a trivializing manner: Why?