I just have a few questions, and I’d appreciate it if someone could put these into context. If you are familiar with the work of James Burke (Connections, The Day the Universe Changed, After the Warming), he speaks of a time in the earth’s history where Greenland was mostly farmland, England was the best place to grow grapes for wine, he speaks of a Little Ice Age that I’ve read apparently just ended in the 19th century, and a time during a boom in English agriculture of, paraphrasing, ‘remarkably good weather’, meaning warm weather.

So my question is that since there was apparently a time when the normal weather patterns of the earth were quite different, how do these different patterns fit into the present predictions and analysis? In other words, how was that warming and cooling different from today’s warming and cooling?