Global Warming
by Godzilla Pimp

Godzilla Pimp is the pseudonym of a very sound man who posts on news groups. He annoys lefties every time. His view of global warming seems entirely reasonable. He gives sources for his assertions which makes them checkable. He has a further virtue. He is to the point.

"Godzilla Pimp" <me7@privacy.net> wrote in
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The world (or at least the Northern Hemisphere) is in a small warm period
within a large warm period within an ice age.

Look at this chart:

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/when_ice_ages.html

As you can see, we are about half way through one of the four ice ages which have occupied nearly half of the past 1 billion years. So far, we have had 60 glaciations within the current ice age, the last of which peaked 20,00 [ sic ] years ago and ended about 11,000 years ago. In other words, we are between glaciations though in the middle of an ice age. We are also in the middle of a small warm period within this inter-glacial phase. There seems to be about a 400 year cycle of relatively minor warmings and coolings. The last cool period (the so-called "mini ice age") ended around 1850 AD having begun around 1450. Canals all over Europe froze solid in the winter. Before that, we saw a warm period in the Middle Ages starting around 1,000 AD where wine was produced in Britain and Greenland was colonized. By 1500, Greenland had been abandoned.

It seems pretty clear we are do for another cool period in a century or two and eventually another glaciation in a few thousand years.  Finally, we will see the current ice age end in 50-150 million years and the earth will once again have many millions of ice-free years.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/

GP