Rossputin.com Rational Thinking About Our World

One of the weakest points in the global warming alarmists' position is their implicit assumption that people and animals do not adapt to changes in climate. Given that animals (including humans) didn't arrive on the planet in the last few hundred years, and given that climate has changed dramatically, in both directions, over the last ten thousand or hundred thousand years, has Al Gore noticed that we (and huge numbers of plant and animal types) are still here?

Has Gore not noticed, for example, that as we've suffered "global warming" for the past few decades (actually, not true, since we've been cooling for 10 years, but that's not what Gore says), the number of heat-related deaths in America has steadily declined? It's because we learn to behave in safer ways and develop technology which makes life easier and safer, such as better and cheaper air conditioning.

In my "global warming" news alert on Sunday, the first two articles were about similar adaptation. The articles reminded me of how stupid the alarmists' claims are of the potential danger of temperature changes (even beyond the silliness of their claims of the size of human influence on climate).

The first story is actually about birds, not humans:
"British birds adapt to global warming", LA Times, 5/10/08
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-birds10-2008may10,0,6561631.story

And about human adaptation of sorts:
"Wine makers take heat out of global warming", Scotsman.com, 5/11/08
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Wine-makers-take-heat-out.4071472.jp