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I wasn't in this conversation but I'm sure he also said that the planet is millions of years old and the climate always has its ups and downs.
by anodari 5y ago
I wasn't in this conversation but I'm sure he also said that the planet is millions of years old and the climate always has its ups and downs.
- d110af5ccf 5y agoWhich is completely true! Antarctica was even covered by rainforest at one point! It's just the rate of change that's the issue (by many many orders of magnitude). (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5)
- Avalaxy 5y agoI always refer those people to this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/. It visualizes things very powerfully. Yet, I never get a response anymore after sending this to them.
- mod50ack 5y agoThe planet will be fine. It's a rock. It's the inhabitants who will have a problem.