The Medieval Warming period, which lasted from 950 to 1300, saw great expansion of food production in the northern latitudes and flourishing communities.

Greenland (aptly named at the time it was settled by Eric the Red) became a thriving Viking colony, known for its fertile coastal farmland and bountiful ice-free waters — that is until the Little Ice Age turned it into an ice-covered wasteland, surrounded by pack ice. Yet Greenland's ongoing recovery from the Little Ice Age is treated as an enigma today.

Earlier, the Roman Warming period (200 B.C. to A.D. 600) was prosperous and enlightened. The following cold cycle coincided with the Dark Ages.

While there is little we can do that would alter Earth's temperature cycles, we may be leading ourselves down a road of economic suicide. Here in Massachusetts, our Legislature is in the process of capping CO2 emissions levels at 20 percent of 1990 levels by the year 2050. Does anybody who is knowledgeable about energy production believe that this is even achievable?

Although our Legislature will not be able to alter the millions-year-old climate cycle, they have repeatedly shown that they are very capable of making life more expensive here in Massachusetts. For example, coal is much more plentiful and economical for power generation than alternatives such as natural gas. But because of regulatory reasons in Massachusetts, we rely on natural gas for about half of our electrical generation, raising the cost of both electricity and natural gas and making us more dependent on imported LNG.

Internationally proposed "solutions," which exempt developing nations, are an even greater mistake. Does it really make sense for the United States to sign a treaty that gives another economic advantage to China?

Although many are gripped in fear of global warming today, 30 years ago we feared the opposite. During my teenage years in Florida, cold weather kept creeping farther down the state, destroying more orange groves every year. "Experts" were predicting that the Florida orange industry would be wiped out as a result of the cooling climate, which was incidentally also blamed on human activities.

President Franklin Roosevelt said during the Great Depression, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." The same could also be said about global warming.  Source

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