Global climate control

One thing has bothered me for a long time about all this talk of global warming and how we've got to do something about it.

Okay, a couple of things.

First, I have to wonder what baseline global warming folks use as the ideal temperature distribution model for the earth.

And more important, if they want to impose that baseline for all time, they will have to reverse the warming trend and induce some global cooling. Then they will have to figure out how to stop the cooling and moderate any natural fluctuations in temperature and precipitation.

Given the decentralized nature of the emission of greenhouse gases and how the international community (whatever that is) cannot stop China from creating a new environmental disaster every year, how could all this be accomplished? Will we turn climate control over to the United Nations? Will the blue helmets invade the Big Sandy Power Plant at Louisa, Ky., if the UN determines it is pumping out too much carbon dioxide?

And what if these glorious calculations are wrong? If we are creating hell on earth through global warming, could we accidentally induce a new ice age?

Global warming is another of those topics that's easy to talk about and give advice to other people on how they can stop it, but it's one that I fear far, far too few people have thought all the way through. Except those who see it as a means by which they can assert control over others.