We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
Technically, we are in an Ice Age now - but a dwindling one. We still have polar ice caps which earth did not always have.
I've had fun with this topic since realizing that the Dordogne cave artists were living on tundra 15-20,000 years ago as reindeer-hunting, brown-skinned (and often blue-eyed) nomads.
The retreat of the most recent ice incursion sure was dramatic, with lots of floods.