G8 Nations are determined to control weather

G8 Nations are determined to control weather.

Meeting in L’Aquila, Italy, the Group of Eight Industrialized Nations (G8) have evidently determined that weather control is within their grasp. As reported by the AP, the G8 nations have agreed to keeping the world’s average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

What if the planet choses not to cooperate? It has a history of not cooperating.

There are some things we know from basic elementary and secondary education that we don’t need advanced degrees and years of study to determine. We know, for instance, that around 10,000 years ago the planet was much colder than it is today. How do we know that? Anthropologists tell us that a land bridge existed at that time between Asia and North America. For a land bridge to exist, the ice caps had to be thicker then than they are today so it had to be colder then – lots colder.

Ancestors of today’s native Americans walked across that strip of land to populate both North and South America. 10,000 years is a long time from a human being’s perspective but, considering that the earth is upwards of four billion years old, it’s a mere eye blink in geological time.

800 to 1,200 years ago the planet was warmer than it is today. How do we know that? Vikings sailed west from Iceland and colonized Greenland around the 10th century AD. At the time, Greenland was an appropriate name for the place – not so today. From Wikipedia: “[I]t (is) possible to state that areas of Greenland may have been much warmer during the medieval period than it is now ”. Viking settlements thrived in Greenland for 500 years, then the world grew colder with the Little Ice Age and the Vikings left Greenland.