SSDD
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Here is a pretty good book that I would recommend to both skeptics and believers alike. It is written by Brian Fagan, an admitted true believer in AGW, even though practically every word of his book serves to disprove his belief.
He begins his book in the Medieval warm period when vikings were farming in greenland...farms in areas that, even with modern technology could not be farmed today. He touches on actual recorded european historical events such as the french trying to put trade agreements that would ban fine english wines from the country due to the hardship the glut of fine english wines were placing on french wine producers.
He discusses farming in europe noting that crops were being grown at altitudes which, again, even with modern methods are not possible today.
There are a host of historical documents that chronicle the decent into the little ice age and he covers many of them very well, discussing the advance of ice fields and glaciers that we are so terrified will melt today...discussing the damage those advances caused, and the death and hardship that came with the cold that prompted those advances.
Read the book and ask yourself, if you don't already know, whether warm is better than cold.
Fagan freely admits that science has no idea what caused the Medieval warm period and freely admits that it was warmer than the present and admits as well that science has no firm idea of what brought on the LIA but manages to blame modern warming entirely on CO2. He seems not to grasp the contradiction between reality and his belief. Warming to a greater extent than the present happened while CO2 was low but yet, the lesser modern warming must be caused by CO2.
And don't forget that the people who enjoyed the benefits of the Medieval warm period were still cooler than those who lived during the even warmer and more prosperous (for some) Roman warm period when many of the ice fields which eventually became glaciers didn't even exist.
Tell me warmer wackos...what do you believe the optimum temperature for life on planet earth is?