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Hi Eon,
You can post plain-english questions like the ones above into Google. Try it out and you'll find lots of information to answer your questions I'm sure.
Your last question, "If warming is bad does that mean cooling is good?" is a good one. If I had to guess I'd say that right now, all life exists on the earth for all kinds of reasons and one of them is the very comfortable average temperature of the earth. IF it gets too warm, the sea rises and weather changes. If it gets too cold, the sea level drops and weather changes again too, affecting who knows what. Too warm or too cold is obviously not ideal. If people can figure out a way to stop the current trend of the warming of the climate, we can keep things in the comfort zone and all life will be able to continue to exist.
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Nice to see that, unlike some other alarmists here, you are able to respond in a polite and civil manner. When people agree to disagree it can turn heated arguments into calm discussion.
Anyways, the questions I posted above were largely rhetorical. I think you understand that there are no definitive answers to those questions.
What is known right now though, is that the current average temperature of the Earth is well below what the average has been for the majority of the earth's history. Compared to most of that history we are about as low as the earth has ever been. Staying at this temperature or cooling even further is the anomalous condition whereas warming is a step toward returning to normal. Even the last interglacial period, the Eemian, was up to 4 degrees warmer than today despite having a lower CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
There are far greater forces at play here than CO2 concentration and I think it is nothing but human hubris to think we can significantly affect the outcome either way.
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