Welcome the warmth

A long time ago
  the universe was made of ice.
Then one day the ice began to melt,
  and a mist rose into the sky.
Out of the mist
  came a giant made of frost,
And the Earth and the heavens
  were made from his body.
This is how the world began
  and that is how the world will end,
  not by fire
  but by ice.
The seas will freeze,
  and winters will never end.

Geologic evidence shows there have been many ice ages. However, as the above legend shows, only rare tribal memories go back further than the last ice age. Despite the shrill forecasts of dangerous global warming from Al Gore's Gang, there are many signs that we are past the peak of the Holocene Warming. It is the next cycle of global cooling we have to fear.

For example, in Greenland, "The Lost Squadron" travelling from USA to Britain in 1942 was forced to land on the Greenland Ice sheet. Two B-17 bombers and six P-38 Lightnings ran out of fuel and crash-landed on the Greenland ice sheet.

The crews abandoned the planes. The planes were rediscovered 50 years later using steam boring machines. They were buried under 268 feet of ice. (In 2002 a recovered and restored P-38 flew again.)

Our family ancestors learned about weather.

Mine came from Britain and Denmark. Some went to Dunedin in far south New Zealand. There they started to die out and decided to move again – to sunny Queensland.

Judy's ancestors started living around Armidale in NSW but also found it too cold and migrated north to Sarina in North Queensland (every winter her sheep wish she had stayed in the warmth of north Queensland.)