No tree-hugger has been able to successfully answer my question.
“What’s the temperature supposed to be?”
the temperature is supposed to be “nice”
“What’s the temperature supposed to be?”
If you check out the geologic history of the earth, you would find that permanent ice as it exists in Greenland and Antarctica exists only about 5% of the time. So the answer is:
"A lot warmer than it is now."
Even worse, the tree huggers cannot answer the following questions:
1. Why did mile thick sheets of ice come to cover substantial parts of the Northern Hemisphere starting about 250,000 years ago?
2. Why did those ice sheets melt?
3. Why were Vikings able to raise cattle in Greenland 1000 years ago, when it is now too cold to do so?
A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there’s a legal limit to the snow here
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The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
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The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.