Was Life Better During the Ice Age?

George Will asks the global warming crowd a couple of good questions in a Newsweek piece:

Was life better when a sheet of ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there?

Those are excellent questions, and one of the reasons I'm skeptical of the whole global warming "disaster" scenerio as promoted by the politically correct environwacko crowd is the fact that you never hear them give any possible positive outcomes to global warming. Surely not everything that can happen should the earth warm a bit be bad.

Did you know that during the Middle Ages temperatures in England were warm enough that Britain was known for its outstanding wines? You can't grow wine grapes in England today because the climate is too cold. Were the warmer temperatures in existence back then due to the proliferation of Middle Age SUV's? How then do you explain the warming and cooling that's gone on over the ages?

The earth is not a stable platform in terms of global temperatures. Neither is the sun a stable platform in terms of power output. It has long been known the the sun tends to operate in cycles in which more or less energy is produced and that has an impact on the temperatures on earth. Both the earth and the sun are stable enough to allow life to continue on this planet, but conditions do vary from time to time, and many solar scientists have said we're in an active sun period right now which is contributing to the rising (though slight) global temperatures.

Which do you think is more likely to affect global temperatures - your Ford Explorer or the sun?

Read Will's article for more.