Historically, Earth has been much hotter on average than it is now: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been https://www.

Historically, Earth has been much hotter on average than it is now: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte... The near past was the one of the coldest points in history in the last 500 million years. The idea that the Earth is going to explode if temperatures increase by 1.5C is amusing. Yes, it's definitely not going to be fun, and yes it looks like it's definitely going to happen. But the world has been that hot plenty of times before (100s of millions of years), and we haven't turned into Venus yet. I'm all for cutting CO2 emissions - definitely think they're causing a problem - but it's not going to be annihilation / world ending. I say this because I had existential dread for literally a decade until I looked into it more.