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I'm sorry but "we should be more adaptable" is clearly just misdirection from the actual thing at stake: the need to stop this insane rate of change caused by h

I'm sorry but "we should be more adaptable" is clearly just misdirection from the actual thing at stake: the need to stop this insane rate of change caused by humans. The fact that there were or will be future rapid changes is insignificant, considering their frequency and scale compared to human caused change. See the hockey stick graph or https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/. I don't know what feverish polarized politics you refer to since I'm not in the US but you have to understand that the words you are writing mirror the tactics used by big oil to delay change.

leereeves 2y ago
> See the hockey stick graph or https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/. Those are good examples of partisan politics misinforming people about climate history, by leaving out 99% of it. In fact, we're still below the historical average temperature on Earth and about 12C below the hottest times, as the following complete graph (500 million years) shows: https://www.climate.gov/media/11332 https://www.climate.gov/media/11332 > The fact that there were or will be future rapid changes is insignificant, considering their frequency and scale compared to human caused change As you can see on that graph, the scale of human caused climate change is smaller than many past natural climate changes. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, for example, began with a global mean temperature rise between 5C and 8C.