Eric The Red, a Viking, founded Greenland in 986 A.D.  The climate supported crops until 1480 A.D. when it turned cold again and the colony disappeared.  Apparently some climate scientists haven't read their Norwegian history.  Not only were Chretien's Liberals giving away hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to Quebec Liberal ad firms they totally failed to understand Kyoto before signing it.  No country on earth is more negatively impacted by Kyoto than Canada and we only generate 2.2% of the world's carbon dioxide while India, China, Russia and the U.S. account for 47.5%. and they are not affected by Kyoto.

The now discredited "hockey stick" spike purporting to show that the earth has just recently warmed up was used as the basis for creating the Kyoto Protocol.

A brief summary of earth's climate swings shows that there were innumerable ice age and greenhouse cycles.  In 800 million B.C. the earth froze to the equator, and in 600 million B.C. the earth warmed creating millions of new species.  In 250 million B.C. mass extinctions occurred caused by a kind of nuclear winter followed by a 10 F temperature increase lasting 100,000 years.  In 202 million B.C. asteroids caused dust, blocking the sun for centuries and cooling the earth followed by huge temperature increases.  In 65 million B.C. more asteroids caused severe cooling wiping out the dinosaurs followed again by global warming.  Around 3 million B.C. the polar ice caps froze again and since 2 million B.C., over 30 separate icehouse to greenhouse climate cycles occurred due to changes in earth's axis, wobble and variations in earth's orbit around the sun.  Around 70,000 B.C. the current ice age began but by 17,000 B.C. a warming cycle raised sea levels 35 ft in Britain melting vast ice sheets and creating the English Channel.

By 12,000 B.C. the climate stabilized but Essex County still sits on a half mile thick ice sheet. The Sahara had a lush climate 10,000 years ago with rivers and lakes but a drying trend 5,000 years ago created the desert. North Africa was the bread basket of the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago but today its an arid desert and in the 12th century Europe was warmer than it is in 2005. Greenland is now warming and the ice shield is melting as it will until we enter another ice age. Is the earth warming? Yes. Will it cool again? Yes. Will Kyoto change global warming? No. Its only political nonsense in keeping with the UN's track record on such things. 

Mickey Moulder