Global Warming Rethunk | icetree's Blog

The fact remains, though, that the earth has not, by any means, warmed to the level it was when the cycle began in approximately the year 1000--when Greenland was actually green and England harvested grapes every summer as a matter of course.

But, here's why this whole argument [the 'natural warming' the politicians postulate] is irrelevant:
No matter the cause, we are faced with a major crisis or even series of crises as a result of the warming we're undergoing at the moment.

Benny Peiser « The Politics of Climate Change

As we get closer to the Copenhagen conference, the chances of a global climate agreement are fading rapidly. In fact, the probability of a Kyoto-style treaty with legally binding emissions targets are now close to zero as the gap between the developed and the developing nations has been growing ever wider.