The ups and downs of global warming over time

You have to read this chart from right (older time periods) to left (now). In case it's too small for you to read, the thin yellow line is CO2, which you can see has quite often been much higher than today--in fact, we're pretty close to historic lows. The blue line is variation from recent averages--how much higher or lower temperatures were compared to now. Again, for most of the past 600 million years, you can see we're at one of the low cycles, not matched since the Ordovician/Silurian ice ages. The brown fuzzy line is sea levels, which have been 265 meters higher and 120 meters lower than today.

MC: Tea Partiers Don't Like R's Either

The Kyoto Protocols that global warming alarmists believe were carried down from Mount Sinai on stone tablets are only expected to accomplish a fraction of a degree slowing in the rate of temperature increase.

If memory serves, the Kyoto Protocols were only predicted to reduce global temperature increases by less than one degree Fahrenheit by 2100.

And for that paltry, insignificant, theoretical and probably imaginary reduction in the rate of global warming, Lindsey Graham is willing to paralyze America’s economy.

If that’s Republicanism, then count me out.

A tempest in a coffee cup lid - Owen Sound Sun Times - Ontario, CA

It's been just about a year since the Climate Change King and his green minions tried to push through their controversial plan to ban all paper coffee and tea cups with plastic lids.
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(Those options include changing consumer behaviour, spending the $3 million required to outfit the city's Material Recovery Facilities with optical sorters that can separate the lid from the cup and/or retrofitting Ontario paper mills to accommodate hot drink cups.)

Geesh. Only at Socialist Silly Hall would Mayor David Miller and his climate change hangers-on waste this much time over a stinkin' coffee cup.

[Bummer: Maybe global warming drove two or three of 3,800 manatees up north, where they might get hypothermia]

Ilya started his journey north in the summer, startling sailors in the mid-Atlantic. He should have returned to South Florida by fall because once the temperature dips below 68, a manatee can get hypothermia.
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Each year, two or three manatees are known to drift to the northeast, though the numbers are increasing. Biologists aren't sure why. Global warming isn't ruled out.

But the more likely theory has to do with the increase in the number of manatees in the past few years -- current counts say there at least 3,800 in Florida. They might have to travel farther north to get less competition for food.