The 'back to mid to late 1800's' meme is a conservative talking point used to induce fear rather than opening a genuine discussion on the best ways to move forward.

Actually, no, I thought of that all by my little self by carrying out the theory of AGW to its logical conclusion.  I honestly wish I had more time to read - lots of things, including like-minded literature on this subject.

Items:

#1 - How much of man's greenhouse gasses will be reduced by the measures in your first paragraph?  Keep in mind that carbon dioxide is the greatest greenhouse gas in terms of quantity, not strength of impact - that being methane (excluding water vapor).

#2 - If the answer to #1 is anything other than 100%, how do we know it will be sufficient to stop global warming?  If the theory is that man is causing global warming by his 6% greenhouse gas contribution, that's quite a small tipping point.  Prove that if man's contribution becomes, for example, 3%, that it will do the trick and global warming will be stopped.

#3 - That there should be "a genuine discussion on the best ways to move forward" is a false premise.  Why would we move forward on a phenomenon that has not been shown to be man's doing, to be in his capability of reversing or even desireable to reverse?  Not only are far more deaths by cold than by heat, the price to be paid to drive that 6% to an effective level is draconian.

Wind:

- Wind Power is intermittent (wind farms must rely on conventional power plants to back up their supply)
- Wind Power costs twice as much as electricity generated from fossil fuels (the levelized cost of a kilowatt hour is 3.53 cents for coal, 5.47 cents for gas, 5.94 cents for nuclear and 6.64 cents for wind unsubsidized)
- Wind Power is not economically feasible without subsidies (subsidized at 1.9 cents per kilowatt hour in the United States)
- Wind Power equals only about 0.28% of the United State's energy supply (40% Oil, 23% Coal, 23% Natural Gas, 8% Nuclear and 0.28% Wind)
- Wind Energy cannot be harnessed to meet the timing of electricity demands (avoiding blackouts requires production and demand on an electrical grid be equal every second, so operators need gas-fired "load-following" generators that can adjust instantly)
- Wind Energy cannot be stored (unless batteries are used)
- Wind Farms are often located in remote locations, far from cities where the electricity is needed (this increases trasmission costs)
- Wind Farms can effect weather patterns (the turbulence from large wind farms creates warmer, drier conditions at the surface)
- Wind Farms can be eyesores (community members often complain about the blinding strobe-light sensation that takes place on wind farms at dawn and dusk)
- Wind Farms can produce noise pollution
- Wind Farms can interfere with radar
- Wind Farms have a devastating effect on birds (an estimated 44,000 birds have been killed over the past two decades by wind turbines in the Altamont Pass, east of San Francisco)
- Wind Farms need 100 times more land area than conventional power plants (to produce 1,000 MW of power, a wind farm would require approximately 192,000 acres, or 300 square miles; a nuclear plant needs less than 1,700 acres, or 2.65 square miles (within its security perimeter fence); and a coal powered plant takes up about 1,950 acres, 3.05 square miles)
- Wind Turbines have to be shut off in high winds or temperatures (wind turbines shut off in over 50mph winds or 100 degree temperatures)
- Wind Turbines can be dangerous (turbines can collapse, catch fire and the blades can break off)

Living Next Door to a Wind Farm, Australia (Video) (10min)
Wind Farms - Not In My Back Yard (Video) (5min) (John Stossel, 20/20)

Wind - Catch the Wind, Change the Weather (The New York Times)
Wind - Energy Answer is Not 'Blowing in the Wind' (The Heartland Institute)
Wind - Hot Air and Wind (Cato Institute)
Wind - Loss of Wind Causes Texas Power Grid Emergency (Reuters)
Wind - Greenpeace Opposes Wind Farm Plan (BBC)
Wind - Problems With Wind Power (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Wind - The True Cost of Electricity from Wind Power And Windmill "Availability" Factors (Glen R. Schleede, Minnesotans For Sustainability)
Wind - Wind Energy Will Not Reduce US Oil Dependence (Glen R. Schleede, Minnesotans For Sustainability)
Wind - Wind Farm Claims Are So Much Hot Air (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind - Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests (The New York Times)
Wind - Wind Power: Red Not Green (National Center for Policy Analysis)

Birds - Altamont Pass Settlement Fails to Reduce Bird Kills (The Heartland Institute)
Birds - Coastal wind farm would destroy bird haven say protesters (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Birds - Eagles Killed By Wind Farm Blades (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Birds - Enviro Group Sues Wind Farm to Stop Bird Deaths (The Heartland Institute)
Birds - Rare Bird Killed By Wide Turbine (BBC)
Birds - Sea Eagles Being Killed by Wind Turbines (The Daily Telegraph)
Birds - Turbine Expansion Said to Threaten Birds (FOXNews)
Birds - Wind Farm 'Hits Eagle Numbers' (BBC)
Birds - Wind Farms May Threaten Whooping Cranes (Associated Press)
Birds - Wind Farm Threat to Bird Species (BBC)
Birds - Wind Turbines Hazardous to Birds, Bats (UPI)
Birds - Wind Turbines Taking Toll on Birds of Prey (USA Today)

Eyesore - Blow Back Over 'Eyesore' Wind Farms (ABC News)
Eyesore - Wind Farm? Not Off My Back Porch (ABC News)
Eyesore - Wind Farms Worst Eyesore in UK (BBC)

Noise - Are wind farm turbines making people sick? Some say yes (The Kansas City Star)
Noise - Family says wind farm noise made them sick (Fort Frances Times Online)
Noise - Flicker noise from turbines a worry for Montreathmont plans (Brechin Advertiser, UK)
Noise - Wind Farm Noise 'Harms Health' (Yorkshire Post, UK)
Noise - Wind Farms 'Make People Sick Who Live Up to A Mile Away' (The Daily Telegraph)
Noise - Wind turbines 'are ruining our quality of life' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Noise - Wind Turbine Syndrome (Nina Pierpont, B.A Biology, Ph.D. Population Biology, M.D. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

Radar - Wind Farm Blow to Radar Systems (BBC)
Radar - Wind Farm Fears For Ships' Radar (BBC)
Radar - Wind Farms 'A Threat to National Security' (The Times, UK)
Radar - Wind Farms Disrupt Radar Images (BBC)
Radar - Wind Farms 'Grounded By Air Safety Fears' (The Times, UK)
Radar - Wind Farms Threat to MoD Radar (The Press Association)
Radar - Windmill Projects Stilled For Now (USA Today)

Unsafe - The Dangers of Wind Power (BusinessWeek)
Unsafe - Danish Climate Minister Demands Explanation for Violent Wind Turbine Collapse (The Jutland Post, Denmark)
Unsafe - Danish Wind Turbine Rips Itself Apart (Video Close-up )
Unsafe - Danish Wind Turbine Rips Itself Apart (Video Wide-angle)
Unsafe - 242-foot Wind Turbine Snaps in Half, Killing a Worker at Top, Oregon (The Oregonian)
Unsafe - Big Chunk of Turbine Blade Shears Off (West Morning News, UK)
Unsafe - Blazing Turbine Falls Into Field, UK (BBC)
Unsafe - Danger Claim As Turbine Blade Snaps Off, UK (Berwickshire News)
Unsafe - Fire Damages Wind Turbine Near Garner, Iowa (Globe Gazette)
Unsafe - Man Dies After 100ft Turbine Fall, UK (BBC)
Unsafe - Two Giant Vestas Wind Turbines Collapse, UK (off-grid)
Unsafe - Unexpected Shrapnel From A Wind Turbine, UK (Habitat21)
Unsafe - Wind Farm Fears As Blade Snaps, UK (The Times, UK)
Unsafe - Wind Farm Fire Caused Blackout, Australia (News Limited, Australia)
Unsafe - Wind Turbine Catches Fire: Mount Storm, West Virginia (West Virginia Firefighters)
Unsafe - Wind Turbine Falls Near Weatherford, Oklahoma (The Oklahoman)
Unsafe - Wind Turbine on Fire, California (Video)
Unsafe - Wind Turbine on Fire (Video)

Solar:

- Solar Power is the most expensive way to generate electricity (the levelized cost of a kilowatt hour is 3.53 cents for coal, 5.47 cents for gas, 5.94 cents for nuclear, 6.64 cents for wind and 35-50 cents for solar unsubsidized) (Source)
- Commonly Available Solar Panels Are Only 12% Efficient (Source)

Solar - Cloudy Outlook For Solar Panels: Costs Substantially Eclipse Benefits, Study Shows (Science Daily)
Solar - Expert Foresees 10 More Years Of Research & Development To Make Solar Energy Competitive (Science Daily)
Solar - Solar Power Problems Part 1 - Solar Power Presents Many Hurdles to Consumers (The Heartland Institute)
Solar - Solar Power Problems Part 2 - Home Solar Power Fails Due to Practical Difficulties (The Heartland Institute)
Solar - Solar Power Problems Part 3 - Inefficiencies Deter Widespread Use of Solar Power (The Heartland Institute)
Solar - Solar-Powered Welfare (Cato Institute)
Solar - The False Promises of Solar Energy (Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry)
Solar - The Problems With Solar Power (Worcester Business Journal)

Recycling:

Bullshit! - Recycling (Video) (29min)

Recycling is Garbage (The New York Times)
- Every community recycling program in America today costs more than the revenue it generates (Source)
- The market for most products manufactured from recycled materials is largely supported by government subsidies or government programs requiring recycled content in certain products (Source)
- The value of recycled materials on the open market has declined dramatically in recent years, and in many cases there is no market at all (Source)
- Manufacturing paper, glass, and plastic from recycled materials uses appreciably more energy and water and produces as much or more air pollution as manufacturing from raw materials (Source)
- We are not running out of or will we ever run out of any of the resources we recycle (Source)
- We are not cutting down “endangered forests” today to make paper. We plant far more trees than we harvest each year. Wood is in ample supply (Source)
- U.S. Forest land area increased from 747 million acres in 1997 to 749 in 2002 (U.S. Forest Service)
- Since the 1950s, timber growth has consistently exceeded harvest (U.S. Forest Service)
- We are not running out of landfill space. All the garbage we will generate in the next 10 centuries will require less than 35 square miles to a height of only 300 feet (Source)
- Landfills are no longer a threat to the environment or public health. State-of-the-art landfills, with redundant clay and plastic liners and leachate collection systems, have now replaced all of our previously
unsafe dumps (Source)
- Landfills can be excellent neighbors, contributing wonderful parklands and golf courses to our communities (Source)

Fuel Efficiency:

Don't Raise CAFE Standards (Cato Institute)

Public Transportation:

5 Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture (Reason Magazine)

The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource