Shocker: Change in climate linked to poverty and food shortage

"I tried to convey that climate change and the loss of the sea ice up here will affect everybody on the planet - unpredictable weather changes, rises in sea levels are all linked to food shortages and poverty." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7897392.stm

Wow! Ya don't say! I bet that is exactly what the settlers of Greenland and France were thinking that fateful year when the crops failed in 1816 and there was no more food left and they were dying because of a little thing we all know as The Little Ice Age.

"Each of the peaks in prices corresponds to a particularly poor harvest, mostly due to unfavorable climates with the most notable peak in the year 1816 - 'the year without a summer.' One of the worst famines in the seventeenth century occurred in France due to the failed harvest of 1693. Millions of people in France and surrounding countries were killed. " The Little Ice Age in Europe

Or how about the 1930's, we have more CO2 in this day and age so what caused The Great Dust Bowl . Obviously we screwed up the land but why the drought?

There is more here than meets the eye. The group out to measure the Ice depth is to be commended: we need this information to know how to better treat the earth, but... let's not make hasty decisions on global warming before the science is done. Let the scientists improve the means of measuring the damage till a point that they actually know what we are doing. You can not base all of your predictions on unproven models, which up till this point seems to be the only "proof."