Greenland

The Al Gores of the world are skittering around in full panic mode because grass is starting to grow in Greenland.

Well now. Why do you suppose the place is called "Greenland"? Because, when the Vikings discovered it and settled the place, it was green and fertile, enough so to support a growing community.

But... as the mini ice age that swept Europe enveloped Greenland, the Vikings were forced to abandon the place. They couldn't grow any crops for themselves and their animals.

Notice one thing... When Greenland was actually Green, the ocean level was not at some disastrous civilization-killing high point. Water did not cover the place, London was not flooded under thirty feet of seawater, nor were any other major seacoast cities.

Seems to me that the earth is still recovering from this recent mini-ice age, that just perhaps Greenland will return to it's previously fertile state, and that ocean-side cities around the world will not be destroyed by a rising flood of sea water, as claimed by Al Gore and his chattering flock of chicken-littles.

So what is the "normal temperature of earth? Is there really such a thing? Or is constant climate change normal? It would be nice if we could establish these things without all of today's panic and fear-mongering.

If climate change is a normal and recurring event, we need to find the limits on both the high and low extremes, and then move our civilization - if necessary - to places that will not be adversely affected.