Take a look at South Dakota House Concurrent Resolution 1009 and
shake your head: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Calling for balanced
teaching of global warming in the public schools of South
Dakota. WHEREAS, the earth has been cooling for the last eight
years despite small increases in anthropogenic carbon dioxide;
and WHEREAS, there is no evidence of atmospheric warming in the
troposphere where the majority of warming would be taking place;
and WHEREAS, historical climatological data shows without
question the earth has gone through trends where the climate was
much warmer than in our present age. The Climatic Optimum and
Little Climatic Optimum are two examples. During the Little
Climatic Optimum, Erik the Red settled Greenland where they
farmed and raised dairy cattle. Today, ninety percent of
Greenland is covered by massive ice sheets, in many places more
than two miles thick; and WHEREAS, the polar ice cap is subject
to shifting warm water currents and the break-up of ice by high
wind events. Many oceanograph