Recent news reports are saying the earth is at its warmest in 2000 years.  Doesn't that simply mean it was warmer 2000 years ago? (Long before man would have had an effect!)  The original source.

Here is something to think about... Only 10,000 years ago grasses covered the Sahara desert region and mammals such as lions and elephants roamed the land. What happened to that region?  It is called nature!  Global warming has been occurring since the end of the last ice age and will continue to occur until the next ice age begins, which is on its way...

It is easy to pick the emotional/political cause and say man is the problem, but hold on a moment...

Global warming/cooling is a very complex subject and there are many factors that control our climate including; continental drift, sun spots, volcanoes, shifting poles, but also (all but forgotten) El Niņo and La Niņa, the Earth's axis "wobbles" and other reasons.

It is interesting to us that the warmest temperatures ever recorded have not been recent events, in fact they were in the early 1900's, locally, Nationally and Globally.

• The warmest on record for Minnesota was 114 degrees in 1917 and again in 1936. 
  The lowest recorded temperature was -60 degrees in 1996.  Source. 
• Nationally the warmest on record was in California back in 1913. 
  The lowest recorded temperature was -80 degrees Montana recently in 1971.
• Globally the warmest on record was recorded back in 1922. 
  Lowest -129 in 1983. Source.

"Most of the climate community has agreed since 1988 that global mean temperatures have increased on the order of one degree Fahrenheit over the past century, having risen significantly from about 1919 to 1940, decreased between 1940 and the early '70s, increased again until the '90s, and remaining essentially flat since 1998."  From an interesting opinion piece by an Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.

We will have a lot more on this and other interesting subjects soon.  Watch for our release of "The End."