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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Win Smith who wrote (31676)6/6/2002 6:06:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
I wouldn't exactly trust Thomas Sowell to accurately interpret the science here

Who do you trust, that's the question? I remain very confused about global warming, because the things that I think I really know about the climate are very few:

12,000 years ago we were in an ice age and the climate was much colder than today
Which climate is more "normal", today's or 12,000 years ago? No one can answer the question and it's probably meaningless.
From about 1400 to 1750 the climate got colder than it had been in the Middle Ages, the period is even nicknamed "the little ice age". Since 1750 the climate has been getting warmer. The warming seems to have accelerated lately. Since the warming started before the industrial revolution, man's activities probably didn't cause it, but may be hastening it. The climate is still colder than it was the Middle Ages. Back then, you could grow claret grape varietals in southern England; it's still too cold for that today.

So the conclusion is...
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