>Unless CO2 warming is working as proclaimed and is needed to fend off the the coming ice age<bg>.
>I am with you, but more on the grounds that there are better uses than just burning it up for energy.

In a way, I think that there's nothing unnatural about the global warming. The energy released through human activity was leased first. Um, bound first, by plants - that's the photosynthesis, the oldest known solar technology, which bound the solar energy ages ago. That's where all those carbon compounds come from, that's where all that coal and oil came from.

So all this energy came from the Sun before, it's just being released now; it's the same old system as it always was, right?

Maybe so. But then, the system can withstand a lot of disturbance - the albedo of the planet can vary (just the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa#Effects show enough) etc. It doesn't mean the humans on the planet would fare easily. Just in the last four years I've seen floods in central Europe (2004 or 2006?); a hurricane season with borrowing from Greek alphabet (2005), once-in-500-years floods in Iowa (ongoing now), and several other things which may have been written off as "once in nnn years those have to happen". Can anyone explain, then, why do we have at least one of those almost every year now?