> 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 h

> 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.