One of the interesting aspects of the current "global warming" hysteria by Gore and others is the prediction that life will get worse with more bad weather, more disease, etc. When one considers what happened during the "little ice age" it seems that life got worse as the weather got colder. There more more storms, more severe storms, and more disease to go with crop failure. From a historical perspective it appears that warmer is better. Now I read that some of the zealots want to have trials for those who deny that man is having a catastrophic impact on the environment(who are termed the "deniers"). Here is a link to an interesting article about the witch trials of those accused of causing the bad weather.

http://antigreen.blogspot.com/