And in the 50s we were going to be driving nuclear powered cars by now.

I'll see your impossible things and raise you "Things that will change the world" but have never been heard from after the initial hype.

The point is the warm periods were/are good things.

I'll go out on a limb and say the college hipsters are either on vacation or busy getting ready for finals so slashdot is deprived of their input.

Oh and don't forget how warm periods crushed medieval civilization and the Roman Empire.

Or is it now settled science that those warm periods didn't exist ?

Or that the Roman Empire and Pre Black Death Europe didn't exist ?

No No No a warmer world means doom. We all die with warming, everyone is under water and being pelted with a hurricane.. Al Gore got the Nobel for making certain everyone understood.

I mean if a warmer world was better for civilization we wouldn't need carbon credits and taxes, there would be no reasoning for the enlightened to go around being annoying and telling everyone else what they have to do, because "SAVE THE PLANET MAN"

It's comments like the above that make me think Slashdot has become some college frat's drinking game.

You obviously weren't alive at the time. There were people that welcomed the idea of a nuclear showdown with the Soviet Union.

It isn't nonsense if you understand his world view.

In his world President Bush is the incarnation of the antichrist and and staged the 9/11 attacks so he could wage war on the peaceful and progressive Saddam Hussein.

Once you understand his worldview you realize the correct term isn't nonsense, it's ravings.

Troll. flamebait, or just plain stupid ? Gotta go with flamebait, to be followed with and endless stream of pavlovian programmed responses.

I don't know if you are stupid or just plain insane. But please keep ending your posts with how nuclear war is a good thing.

Don't go there. Climate change is a term that means anything the alarmists want it to mean frequently different things in the same conversation. The way they use it is much the same way cable companies are working to make Net Neutrality a term that means whatever they want it to mean.

Once again posting anonymously, why well "Global warming because STFU" is the mantra of greens.

Three times actually
Japan invaded the Aleutian islands in WWII.
Four if you count the problem with Pancho Villa.

Well I don't know about the short historical memory. We are all aware of Europeans cutting each others throats for the past millennium.

quelle horreur

If you leave the money with the peasants they might use it badly for things like food and housing.
Much better to make certain it get spent for real needs by the government.