Let me preface this by stating that I'm not a climate change denier, I believe in anthropogenic climate change

Well, Technically we could cause a pretty swift change in climate to cool things down if we used nukes to fill the atmosphere with dust temporarily, which would cause cooling, and could potentially cause a runaway cooling effect by having all the snow and ice reflect light away.

Yeah, I thought about the nuclear option too. But didn't think about it in my reply because while the fastest current solution it would be vastly unpopular. But yeah thanks for pointing that out :)

Yeah, it would be very counter-productive, since it would also kill off most crops and kill off a large chunk of the human population.

>Am I missing something here?

Geographic shifts in parasite and disease cycles for crops, livestock and humans. I've brought it up several times in climate change threads with studies but no one wants to talk about it despite it being a real serious issue that no one in the media mentions until it's too late.

I personally wouldn't mind if a large chunk of the population was wiped out, it would helpful in the short-term at least.

The medieval warm period was not global, there were much fewer humans that were not as dependent on global infrastructure and ecosystems as we are now, we've already surpassed the medieval warming period's temperature, and global warming isn't simply bad because it's hot, it's bad because it's rapid.

>Either way, the world didn't end up in Armageddon then
No one's saying global warming will end the world, just that it will be extremely costly. And again, saying that the medieval warming period was good for farming is irrelevant since current global warming is not the same in degree or speed.

> is it so unreasonable that we'd be able to find a technological solution if it was indeed so dire?
There is a technological solution, replace fossil fuels with nuclear and renewables.

Any questions?

How do we get the over 1 Billion Indians and over 1 Billion Chinese to actually give a shit about it?

globalization

So by conquering them and forcing them to do what we say? Because otherwise they sure as hell aren't going to do it willingly.

They don't have to, they're not the ones who control energy infrastructure and law.