Warming politics - The Little Ice Age

Living in the Little Ass Age

Given my current general lassitude, I am in no mood for rambling disquisition on the subject of global temperature politics, but I cannot let this slide.  If you subscribe to cable's premium Hitler Channels - what I call the dozen or so bundled History/TLC/Discovery cable offerings - you cannot help but notice the ongoing struggle to recalibrate yesterday's recorded history with today's multicultural friendly versions.  For example, older filmed presentations use AD and BC (Anno Domini / Before Christ); newer ones peddle BCE and CE  (Before the Common Era / Common Era).  So far it's enjoyed all the success that changing us to the metric system had, but that won't stop the ratbastards from trying.  The New York Times has it's own Discovery Channel (by virtue of being a part owner in Discovery until recently), and it's often amusing.  While the print edition is going out of its way to play down the Islamo threat as a Bush fabrication, the Telly-Times often takes just the opposite approach, showing terrifying accounts of how brutal these people are, and what we're in for if we don't prevail.  Anyway, here's what I wanted to say today. A current two hour documentary on History Channel about The Little Ice Age [clip], narrated by  the late Peter Jennings (who, LOL, would have been foursquare behind Algore's rant on the subject), teaches us that ... Climate change has happened, is happening, and will happen; human intervention or no. Science has no idea what caused the Little Ice age ... but they have lots of guesses. Said Ice Age occurred between the 14th and 17th centuries - well before Ford and Westinghouse inflicted upon us their killer gasses.  Best guesses are solar activity, volcano eruptions, and other natural phenomena are responsible - but nobody really knows - not even that unanimous gaggle who Gore tells us about. Al Gore is insane. Pass it on.