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Do we, I mean 'man', really believe that we can halt something that has been going on for millenia?

But nobody has ever talked about stopping climate change! Nobody wants to! As Rico says, it's cyclic. But the point is that man has sped up the process, and is continuing to speed up the process.
To continue the train analogy, the train normally goes at a leisurely rate and is completely capable of making the turn at the far end. But if we're speeding the train up to breakneck speed - how well do you think it's going to make that turn?
The fight against CO2 emissions has never been about stopping a natural event or trying to override nature, it's about trying to stop man from screwing up nature completely!

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Do we, I mean 'man', really believe that we can halt something that has been going on for millenia?

But nobody has ever talked about stopping climate change! Nobody wants to!

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(Look at the so-called recession in the U.S. that we MUST FIX today with unemployment at less than 5%)

A recession is a decline in a country's gross domestic product, or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year. GDP = consumption + investment + (government spending) + (exports - imports). Unemployment is only one of many factors. Consumer confidence is down. Consumer spending is down due to higher fuel prices. The housing market is in crisis and the Stock Markets are in decline. We have an unimaginable trade deficit and we are spending 1 billion dollars a week on the Iraq war. Something's knocking on our door...and it ain't Avon.

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Actually, that is exactly what Al Gore is saying.  He, and his groups, are raising money to "Help Stop Global Warming."  In addition, I did a google search on 'global warming'.  5, out of the 8, sponsored links were 'fight', 'stop' or 'prevent global warming.

At second look, it is possible that you meant nobody in these forums has talked about it.  If that is the case, then, nevermind. 

Option 2 was correct... 

However, doing a bit more research on the actual terminology, it seems that "global warming" as a phrase is commonly used to describe only the warming attributed to human influence. Therefore, if that is how they interpret the phrase, then "stopping" global warming is something that a lot of people want to work towards.
Indeed, even the UN use the phrase "climate change" for human influenced changes, and "climate variability" for natural changes (from Wikipedia)

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(Look at the so-called recession in the U.S. that we MUST FIX today with unemployment at less than 5%)

A recession is a decline in a country's gross domestic product, or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year. GDP = consumption + investment + (government spending) + (exports - imports). Unemployment is only one of many factors. Consumer confidence is down. Consumer spending is down due to higher fuel prices. The housing market is in crisis and the Stock Markets are in decline. We have an unimaginable trade deficit and we are spending 1 billion dollars a week on the Iraq war. Something's knocking on our door...and it ain't Avon.

And the government sending everyone a check for $700.00 is going to cure all of those problems when the only source of money is to borrow more money or raise taxes to write the checks?