Environmental Observations from Gene Edward Veith @ http://cranach.worldmagblog.com
Jack Kelly, arguing that fluctuations in the earth's temperature are normal and are due to sunspot activity, includes an interesting history lesson, which perhaps our resident Viking expert, Lars Walker, can confirm:
The planet is always getting either warmer or cooler. The current warming trend began about 300 years ago, in the depths of the Little Ice Age (1350-1900).The Little Ice Age followed the Medieval Warm Period (800-1300), when global temperatures were about as warm as the climate-change panel predicts they might be in 2080. In those days Greenland was actually green, and wine grapes grew in Nova Scotia.
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Every change in climate has pluses and minuses. But for humans, warmer is usually better. The Medieval Warm Period was a time (mostly) of peace and plenty; the little Ice Age (mostly) of starvation and war.
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