Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

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Edenkofer's BA in philosophy at the Jesuit university was Marx related

Exactly.

The U.N.'s IPCC is trying to get trillions of dollars for "third world" countries from the U.S. and other "developed" nations, aint ya heard?

Gee, and who do you think holds the power (and the research funding) in this equation? It's not the third world. Bejeebus the UN couldn't even prevent an illegal invasion of Iraq because the US wanted it so bad.

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IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer, speaking in November 2010, advised that:...

There are no climatologists in the IPCC. Only nations are members.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#Funding

AND Walter and I are slow.

Your claims about Pinatubo have been dealt with.

From 1812 to 1815 there were five major volcanic eruptions, culminating with the eruption of Mount Tambora in Sumatra, with a volcanic explosive index rating of seven--on a seven point scale. It was the largest eruption known in almost 1600 years. Hundreds of thousands of people starved to death or died of common illnesses which were fatal to malnourished people. But guess what--the effects were short-term.

1250 for when Atlantic pack ice began to grow
1275 to 1300 based on radiocarbon dating of plants killed by glaciation
1300 for when warm summers stopped being dependable in Northern Europe
1315 for the rains and Great Famine of 1315–1317
1550 for theorized beginning of worldwide glacial expansion
1650 for the first climatic minimum.

The Little Ice Age ended in the latter half of the nineteenth century or early in the twentieth century.

Google "trees killed in USA by bug". There are no end of bugs eating trees. From memory it was the ash borer. Initially the greenies said it had to be GW, but that was just a knee jerk reaction. The investigation was reported in a news outlet, I havent the time to find it again.
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The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period (Medieval Climate Optimum).[1] While it was not a true ice age, the term was introduced into the scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939.[2] It has been conventionally defined as a period extending from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries,[3][4][5] or alternatively, from about 1300[6] to about 1850,[7][8][9] although climatologists and historians working with local records no longer expect to agree on either the start or end dates of this period, which varied according to local conditions. The NASA Earth Observatory notes three particularly cold intervals: one beginning about 1650, another about 1770, and the last in 1850, each separated by intervals of slight warming.[5] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report considered the timing and areas affected by the LIA suggested largely independent regional climate changes, rather than a globally synchronous increased glaciation. At most there was modest cooling of the Northern Hemisphere during the period.

Information obtained from “proxy records” (indirect records of ancient climatic conditions, such as ice cores, cores of lake sediment and coral, and annual growth rings in trees) as well as historical documents dating to the Little Ice Age period indicate that cooler conditions appeared in some regions, but, at the same time, warmer or stable conditions occurred in others. For instance, proxy records collected from western Greenland, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and western North America point to several cool episodes, lasting several decades each, when temperatures dropped 1 to 2 °C (1.8 to 3.6 °F) below the thousand-year averages for those areas. However, these regional temperature declines rarely occurred at the same time. Cooler episodes also materialized in the Southern Hemisphere, initiating the advance of glaciers in Patagonia and New Zealand, but these episodes did not coincide with those occurring in the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile, temperatures of other regions of the world, such as eastern China and the Andes, remained relatively stable during the Little Ice Age.

Still other regions experienced extended periods of drought, increased precipitation, or extreme swings in moisture. Many areas of northern Europe, for instance, were subjected to several years of long winters and short, wet summers, whereas parts of southern Europe endured droughts and season-long periods of heavy rainfall. Evidence also exists of multiyear droughts in equatorial Africa and Central and South Asia during the Little Ice Age.

For these reasons the Little Ice Age, though synonymous with cold temperatures, can also be characterized broadly as a period when there was an increase in temperature and precipitation variability across many parts of the globe.

you apparently know nothing of the biology involved here

Warmer winters, a byproduct of global warming

The scientists who look at climate change do. They look at ALL the factors.

Straw man fallacy

i con't accept your premise that an eruption like Pinatubo would do that, alone.

Straw man fallacy

I note that you don't even name your source

your nomral method is ipse dixit

at no time have i proposed that others do anything, nor is my self-image involved here

the energy sector is OK with that as long as they get to keep selling fossil fuels.