[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I’ve lived in the Arctic — I’m much, much more worried about global cooling than global warming.

Maybe, if I lived in Death Valley, I’d have a different take on the subject.

[Myrddin]

Global warming would increase the amount of arable land. An ice age will definitely decrease it. The current food shortages are driven by high oil prices and silly use of biofuels. A decrease in crop production from an ice age isn't so easily overcome.

The few observable sunspots are the end of cycle 23 along the equator of the sun. A very few number of cycle 24 sunspots have been observed at very high latitudes. The small numbers of sunspots are similar to conditions observed during the last "little ice age" and Maunder minimum. Let's hope it's a fluke.

[MeanWestTexan]

Come to West Texas. We used to be forested.

[AFreeBird]

As someone wrote on another thread; We don’t have periods in our planetary history recorded as the great Hot Ages. It’s always Ice Ages.