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Originally Posted by Skybird
August,
From all what science and research on past eras tells us, a rise of 0.8 °C in just 4 decades or so is racing down the autobahn with lightspeed - it represents a warming process taking place several hundred - sometimes it is even calculated as up to a thousand - times faster than in any previous eras about whose climatic conditions and changes we can make reasonably founded statements, basing on geologic findings for the most, or deep core drillings and deep ice drillings.
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All of which represents barely a sliver from the huge tree of time. It's like saying you've compared a few dozen blurry snapshots taken at random times and places over the past few hundred thousand years with today and can fomulate from that what it's going to be like in 50 years. Oh wait...
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In fact some researchers in these fields say it is easier to reconstruct past atmospheric and climatic conditions, than to predict the change of the present climate. 
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... Really? For all their fancy computer models, ice cores and petrified tree rings and they still find short term prediction difficult? Why then should we have such blind faith in their ability to do so or more pointedly their recommendations on what we should do about it?