[dayglored]

Earth's geological history shows evidence that the global average temperature has often been 10 or more degrees F hotter than it is now. We're actually coming out of an Ice Age, which is why there is a general slight rise in average temperature in the last few hundred years. But it is punctuated by many shorter periods of higher and lower temperatures.

Earth's temperature profile over time is very noisy.

The global warming alarmists are busily studying the noise and making (foolish) predictions based on it.

The idea that it is primarily man-made, and related to post-Industrial Revolution air pollution, etc. is simply ridiculous. The last few hundred years are a tiny drop in the bucket compared to what has gone on in the past 20,000, 200,000, or 2,000,000 years, never mind the 200,000,000 that preceded that. Earth's temperature rose and fell dramatically, swamping all the recent changes that allegedly spell doom for mankind.

What a bunch of stupid monkey poo.

[Steve Van Doorn]

said, "We're actually coming out of an Ice Age"

No we are not. The Quaternary ice age has at least 2 million years before we leave our present ice age.

If they global warming people where right they should be happy to extend our interglacial longer then it naturally should be. I personally WISH they were right. Our interglacial optimum is coming to and end soon geographically speaking.

I understand you meant to say, "mini-ice age." It is a term that really should be eliminated from the English language. Which really is slight change in temperatures in our interglacial period.