[In case you missed it]: Scientists React to a Nobelist's Climate Thoughts - NYTimes.com

Daniel Schrag, Harvard:

Yes, there can be natural climate changes over thousands or millions of years that are large compared to what we are experiencing now. But in fact, our actions have risen well above the level of any natural variations because of their pace. Without our use of fossil fuels, we should be descending into another glacial maximum – albeit slowly, over tens of thousands of years (the pace of natural global climate change in the Pleistocene). And instead our actions have interfered with this natural cycle and we are in the process of completely deglaciating the planet.

Flashback: From David Archibald

What is also interesting is the 2.2° temperature rise from 7.8° in 1696 to 10.0° in 1732. This is a 2.2° rise is 36 years [in Central England]. By comparison, the world has seen a 0.6° rise over the 100 years of the 20th century. That temperature rise in the early 18th century was four times as large and three times as fast as the rise in the 20th century.

The significance of this is that the world can experience very rapid temperature swings all due to natural causes. The temperature peak of 10° in 1732 wasn’t reached again until 1947.

The Signs of Global Warming are in Darfur | Eco Green Living

Many people in the west are becoming convinced that Darfur is the first war triggered by climate change and global warming.

On June 16, 2007, U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon released a statement in which he proposed that the slaughter in Darfur was caused “at least in part from change”, and that it “derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming”.

Climate change falling off public radar, speakers say

A year after the Copenhagen conference on global warming that failed to produce a comprehensive international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, climate change has taken a back seat to issues such as the recession but continues to influence economic and government policy decisions, the Global Business Forum heard Friday.
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Gwyn Prins, a research professor at the London School of Economics, said public opinion polls since the Second World War have consistently shown that people are more concerned about jobs and overall economic conditions than climate.