[Nikas777]

I love this Freerepublic because all these postings I saved while surfing the net I can now find and post here for discussion.

One of them is the fact that the earth was once much warmer - so warm Greeks ran around naked and wore only a toga in the winter and the British Isles were warm enough to grow grapes for wine that was said to rival that of Gual/France in the time of the Romans.

Warm enough for Vikings to farm in Greenland and then things went cold and I think we are just emerging from that mini ice age.

Is that how you guys see it as well? If so can you suggest further reading?

[ClearCase_guy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

Tons of references at the end of the article. The Medieval Warm Period allowed farming in Greenland, but the Little Ice Age put an end to it. This is common knowledge but it doesn’t seem to stop folks some blaming human-produced CO2 for everything wrong with the climate.

[skully]

That's exactly how I see it. The Earf appears to go thru these cycles of warming and cooling about every 500 years or so. That was until Algore and his eco-nuts came along and started screaming the sky was falling. Now according to their flawed data and inaccurate predictions, the Earf is now warm...I mean the climate is now changing out of control and we're all going to die, unless taxes go up to help reduce the amount of plant food(CO2)in the atmosphere. Of course 30 years ago these same idiots were claiming we were heading into an ice age. Once that data didn't pan out, they started screaming Global Warming so they could keep their Federal Funding. Now that the globe is no longer warming, and only the Climate is changing; look for these loons to start predicting an ice age...to keep their federal funding. The global warming/climate change is nothing but a scam to keep getting Federal tax dollars. These people have made careers out of fear mongering and pseudoscience, they'll say anything to stay on the gravy train.

[CholeraJoe]

Correct. In the 12th Century Vikings on the west coast of Greenland grew row crops and raised livestock outdoors year round. Their valuta (walrus ivory) hunters ventured far into the high arctic searching for prey.

[colorado tanker]

This is an interesting website maintained by a friend who is also a climatologist/meteorologist who debunks the junk science behind the climate change crowd.

http://www.colo-earthfriends.org/

[colorado tanker]

The blam/SunkenCiv threads are one of the hidden treasures of FR. Glad to see you posting.