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Is smoking a cigarette worse for you than getting shot in the head? If you want a discussion you have to ask a real question.

• yters 8y ago
  The context is people in this thread claim current climate change is happening at a historically unprecedented rate. However, supposedly a comet struck our planet and wiped out most large animals. That would presumably be a global climate change that happened really quickly, probably more quickly than anything we can do. If so, it is false to say current climate change is historically unprecedented.
  • thereisnospork 8y ago
    Sure if you want to be pedantic about it there have (probably) been a few years in the geological record with higher deltaT's than what is currently being experienced due to volcanoes, comets, and etc. I'm sure someone else might want to debate what qualifies as 'climate' in climate change. My point: the implication of your statement is that the former is irrelevant to us [modern humanity] because the more extreme latter has occurred previously - which is a logical non-sequitur.
    • yters 8y ago
      And yet we are here, despite the past.