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You climate guys crack me up. 15 thousand years ago Canada was under 3 kilometers of ice. Now it is home to 40 million people and covered in wildlife. The hum
by crypot 3y ago
You climate guys crack me up.
15 thousand years ago Canada was under 3 kilometers of ice. Now it is home to 40 million people and covered in wildlife.
The human population went from 2 million to 8 billion during this warming period.
All the evidence points to a warmer planet supporting more life, not less.
- anigbrowl 3y agoNow do Sudan
- zosima 3y agoSudan: current population 50.000.000 population in 1950: 6 191 000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sudan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sudan I'd say they've been thriving.
- anigbrowl 3y agoThe comparison I replied to was over a 15000 year interval. Please do not muddy the waters like this, it's rude.
- Aerbil313 3y ago> covered in wildlife You mean wildfire? Bad autocorrect. /s
- resoluteteeth 3y agoThe abstract question of whether a higher or lower temperature would result in more habitable land (assuming, say, a gradual change over a million years) is completely 100% irrelevant to the issue of climate change. A fast enough change will: - Make places where large numbers of people currently live uninhabitable due to temperature and sea levels - Kill off most plants and animals because the ones in a given place won't be adapted to the new climate, even if theoretically the climate in other places would now be suited to them, in a way that will take millions of years to recover from. Simply saying "warmer is better" is utterly missing the point.
- crypot 3y agoThere has been a 15000 thousand year trend, where a warming planet has resulted in more biodiversity on earth. Where is the evidence that the trend is ending?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoThe rate matters. An airliner lands on a runway and smoothly decelerates from 150 MPH to zero over 10,000 feet. This is just fine. An airliner does the same deceleration over 10 feet. Everyone on board dies in a huge fireball. Even for neutral or beneficial changes, the rate matters.