dmurphy317
Well spoken! I'm glad there are still some clear, critical thinking people like you willing to set the record straight! There are so many inconsistencies about this "global hysteria", just of few of which you mentioned.
There is much evidenc that approximately every1500 years peaks in solar activity is what is driving the correlated slight upward global temperature changes. This in turn does cause some additional ice melt, which CO2 is locked in and is released. So, the alarmists really have the correlation backwards (cause and effect).
Good news is that once Sun spot activity ebbs, temp. on Earth slowly drops. As you stated the cases we know from animals that only live in much warmer climates that once live much farther North in Russia, N. America and Europe that died off when temperatures dropped after one of those warm period of which there have been many before man was around in any number.