Sure, the earth is warming. One would expect a trend of more than 20 thousand years to continue as long as nothing came along to reverse it.

Every continent on the earth was covered by ice which in some places was was thousands of feet thick. Imagine yourself in a time machine, going back in time about 20,000 years. You get out of the machine and all you can see is ice. All around you are miles and miles of ice. You'd think you must have landed on a glacier or frozen lake. Actually, you are in the ice age. Quoted from "The great ice age" "URL" listed below the next paragraph.

About 1/3 of the earth was ice. The most recent ice age was almost 10,000 years ago. As the earth started warming up the ice started to melt. The last ice age left traces that it was there. It left GLACIERS!!! Sheets of ice covered valleys and rivers. Ice spread to different parts of the world. Scientists called it the ice age. It kept melting, then froze again. This went on for about a million years. About 10,000 years ago the earth started to warm up. Sheets of ice started to melt. As the ice melted it left lakes and broad valleys with a mixture of rocks and soil. The only ice left was up high in the mountains. The glaciers that you see now are what is left over from the ice age. Taken from the following article which has the URL listed here http://library.thinkquest.org/3876/iceage.html.

The Great Ice Age, a recent chapter in the Earth's history, was a period of recurring widespread glaciations. Mountain glaciers formed on all continents, the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland were more extensive and thicker than today, and vast glaciers, in places as much as several thousand feet thick, spread across North America and Eurasia. From an article of the same name published by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Mind you my friends that the ice which covered every continent in the world melted back to just the northern most and southern most areas of the globe before people existed.

It makes me wonder about people who think the glacial melting is due to human activity. My question to them is what caused the earth to warm enough to melt all that ice before people were even here? Yosemite valley was carved by a 4,600 ft. thick glacier. None of us humans were even on the face of the earth when that occurred.

We may be, in some very slight way contributing to the warming. However, because all that ice melted before any humans were on the earth, I have my doubts that it is anything more than Mother Nature at work trying to get the earth back to where it was during the eocene period, prior to the ice age. Go to the following web site and read about this time in the earth's history.

(http://www.chickjunk.com/the-eocene-period/)

A time when tropical ferns were growing at the arctic circle where the average daily temperature, according to fossil records was 45 degrees, that is average which means for 365 days per year summer and winter.

If you look carefully at where government spending is going you will find a money trail into the pockets of the scientists trying to prove the illogical. Don't be fooled by a bunch of political rhetoric. Study it for yourself and you will see that the earth was a tropical paradise where millions of dinosaurs roamed the earth where they had plenty of vegetation to eat. All most all the dinosaurs were vegetarians. Now extinct because of the ice age.

The Raven says "Don't mess with Mother Nature"