[liberallarry]

Life has adapted but not necessarily human life. And the adaptation has often been very, very painful.

[alloysteel]

No pain, no gain. Perhaps the highly evolved rodents that shall replace humanity will avoid all our nasty experiments with capitalism and judging on merit, and form a fully socialistic society. (Or is that highly evolved cockroaches?)

[moneyrunner]

"Life has adapted but not necessarily human life. And the adaptation has often been very, very painful."

Is it your contention that human life has not adapted to climatic changes in the past or is in capable of doing so in the future?

[MonroeDNA]

Finally, the average surface temperature on earth over the last 100 years has increased by around 1-1/2 degrees. There were good scientists back then, too. ;)

But almost all of that increase occurred in the first 50 years (1900-1950). In the second 50 years (1950-2000), almost no change was recorded. Actually, this kinda scares me.

What that means is that the earth was warming, but stopped. When you get to the top iof a roller coaster, and stop climbing, you usually go down.

When I was a kid in the '60's, they told us that the earth was cooling, and that we were entering into an ice age (believe it--that's what they taught us). What if they were right?