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> already dealt with problems much bigger than the average temperature going up by a couple of degrees and sea level rising a couple of feet With respect, I th
by bogle 8y ago
> already dealt with problems much bigger than the average temperature going up by a couple of degrees and sea level rising a couple of feet
With respect, I think you may be underselling the effects! The chaotic knock-on of species loss; water pressures causing human migration; a loss of half of the ice on the third pole (the Himalayas) that provides water to over a billion people; acidification of the oceans. We could go on but the point I'd like to hammer home is this isn't anything at all like the previous crises in our brief 60k year sojourn: the anthropocene is an apocalyptic event that will wipe out half of the species on earth (probably).
- pdonis 8y ago> this isn't anything at all like the previous crises in our brief 60k year sojourn We do not know that this is true. Alarmists claim it, but they have no evidence to back it up. For example, we don't know what the ice in the Himalayas was like, say, 6000 years ago. We do know that as glaciers are retreating now, they are uncovering evidence of human habitation in many mountain areas, which is evidence that there have been previous warm periods where there was no ice there as well. That is evidence against the claim you are making. But you don't hear about that from alarmists.