AKIron: ...consider then that warmer temperatures prevail due to the blanketing affect from all the pollutants since we entered the industrial age.
You forgot "allegedely". The pollutants produced in highest quantities is CO2 - which is absorbed by ocean and ground and is produced in huge quantities by vulcanoes and other natural sources.
Besides, the athmosphere concentration of CO2 increased only slightly and is much lower that water vapor - which is much more significant greenhouse gas that CO2 anyway.
Besides, you have significant cooling effects of the same water vapor when it condences in the form of clouds and reflects the Sun's heat - and cloud layer increases because of warming.
In short, the process is so complex and contains so many positive and negative feedbacks (most probably negative self-balansing ones, otherwise the Earth would have been a frozen wasteland or hot inferno by now after all the wild swings in the past) that the scientists have no idea what's going on and will not for quite a while.
The absolutely worst predictions even if they were completely true would not have produced any noticeable effect by now - so when people speak about felling more hot or seing an ocean lefel rise ovet the last few years, it's a load of BS.
Anyway, even if the global warming develops according to the worst predictions, dealing with it's consequences will be infinitely less expensive and disruptive for earth economy and population than trying to prevent it or slow it down.
miko
