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Thanks! If I understood correctly, the second graph indicates that this is nothing but a local maximum. Therefore, the main argument is that the change has bee

Thanks! If I understood correctly, the second graph indicates that this is nothing but a local maximum. Therefore, the main argument is that the change has been abrupt? The problem I see is that it's only in the last 150 years that we're able to measure these changes with precision. We'll never know how many times in the past has climate changed abruptly. That doesn't necessarily mean that we should do nothing about it. It's only that we don't really know.

inkcapmushroom 3y ago
It's truly possible that all the people studying it are wrong, that it's a coincidence that this temperature increase is happening right as we starting adding a whole bunch of stuff into the atmosphere that can be experimentally demonstrated to heat up the atmosphere, that some natural effect we aren't aware of is causing the sudden shift. But it seems unlikely enough that we shouldn't bet the planet on it. As far as we know through observation and experimentation, we have created this mess, and until we get strong evidence that says otherwise we should keep working under that assumption.