What should the Earth's average global temperature be?

Question

No one can seem to give a straight answer on this one. With all of these protocols being bandied about, what is the goal? What do all of the pro global warming people want the temperature to be?

Answer 1

Woggie, your question engenders one from me:  How long do your legs have to be for your toes to touch the ground?

Answer 2

Its really imposible to determine the "average"  temperature of Earth. What they do is put a number up and say that is average but if you do the math(which ain't easy)you will see they don't have a clue what average is. The tropics are hotter than any area of Earth but a lot of the heat there is latent heat and is not used in models. This is one of the flaws of models that are used. Also the tropics are 1/2 the total surface of Earth-a fact also not included in climate modeling. There are other problems in this kind of thinking.

Answer 3

There is no one temperature that the earth should be, we have had ice ages and warm ages.  There is no ideal temperature for the earth, we can only speculate about the ideal temperature for us, which means nothing in the long run.  The earth does not bend to our will we must adapt to it.