aardpsymon: I doubt that it was a lot warmer 400 years ago as we where i nthe midst of a mini ice age then...the little freez, caused a lot of bad (and soem good) things like the french revolution. basicly you got your dates wrong...1000 years ago was the Medival warming period, where it was warmer (RCD of the sargaso sea show that the seas temp was about 1C warmer then). these are irrelivant ot the curent discuession though as they where both regional occurances. both temperature changes only happend in the northern hemisphe no signs of drasticly idfrent temperatures world wide like we see in a true ice age or the truly global warmign that we are seeing now.

and generaly speaking they get the weatehr report right, you just don't understand it (take chance of rain for instance, they say a 20% chance of rain...that actualy means that it will be raining over 20% of the area that they cover)