If the actual climatological facts were at issue, this would be considered, but since the whole APGW thing is a Leftist political scam, there's no reason for them to look at this aspect of it.

We keep hearing about a dreaded warming. It's cold that usually causes sever problems. Warm periods usually are times of plenty.

Cases in point include the years 535-36 and 1816

635-36 

 "during this year a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness… and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear."

Tree ring analysis by dendrochronologist Mike Baillie, of the Queen's University of Belfast, shows abnormally little growth in Irish oak in 536 and another sharp drop in 542, after a partial recovery. Similar patterns are recorded in tree rings from Sweden and Finland, in California's Sierra Nevada and in rings from Chilean Fitzroya trees.

Further phenomena reported by a number of independent contemporary sources: for 635-36

• Low temperatures, even snow during the summer
• Dark clouds, only a few hours of sunlight during the day
• Summarily, there were reports of almost night-like darkness at midday
• Floods in formerly dry regions
• Crop failures

And this may have hastened the fall of Rome and Teotihuacan.

And there's also 1816 The year without summer.

If we were to see anything like those years. We'll be praying for AGW.

“Eppur si muove!" (And yet it moves!) Galileo Galilei

"that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take"
This is simply a GREAT point...ARROGANCE.  Man controls the weather and "climate change" from the climate we have here and now is bad.  Why?  What if a warmer Earth is a better place?  Al Gore talks about a colder Europe as an example of global warming.  Too hot, too cold, anything related to change is bad.  This is just another example of the liberal elite point of view.  No more global warming, climate change is the new fashionable term so any weather event hot or cold can now be explained by Al Gore.  We need to burden the US Taxpayer with a redistribution of wealth scheme on a global scale!

Red v. Blue Charity Link

The Asian continent north of about 50 degrees gets pretty chilly at night, even during the summer (this week) http://www.tropicalr... . Now, during the winter: subtract 100 degrees Fahrenheit. For the public school educated without a calculator handy, that is -50F.

Russia would be happy with 82 degrees F of global warming, especially during the winter (just to get to freezing) -- and the enviros are worried about the disastrous impacts of 1-2F over the next century. Talk about perpsective...

I just hope CO2 levels keep rising so I can save some money and not buy a CO2 generator for my greenhouse garden I'm planning. And to be warmer and not have to worry about early or late freezes ruining blueberry crops, that would be great.