Comments darthschmoo has made

Oh, jabailo...

Let's set aside your confusion about the difference beetween global temperatures and continental U.S. temperatures for a moment.  Instead, let's focus on your confusion about the difference between atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and yearly production of CO2.

Let us use the analogy of a retirement account.  During the roaring twenties, we were socking it away like mad.  But in the thirties, we had very little money to put into the account.  Yet every time we went to the bank to deposit the nickel we scraped together that week for retirement, the cashier told us that our balance was higher than it had ever been.

Lunacy!  If the account is highest when we put the least money into it, then clearly there is no link between putting money into the account and the account balance.

If every human and every artifice of industry was removed from the planet right now, it would take millennia for CO2 to recede back to pre-industrial levels.  In fact, it would probably take a century just for the world to stop warming, since the world isn't yet in thermal equilibrium given the CO2 already present.

There is too much inertia in the system for a hiccup like the Great Depression to fundamentally alter the overall picture.  If you think you're asking a silver bullet of a question here, then you really don't understand the science you're trying to undermine.

If you want my vision of the future, imagine a woman in army boots and a Che Guevara t-shirt stamping on Sam Walton's face -- forever.