eric76 wrote:
It might help to look at reality rather than listen to the clowns pushing their agenda.
The reality is that the climate is about 5 F cooler than during the Holocene Climatic Optimum, about 9,000 years ago. That is the period when mankind was finally able to settle down instead of being nomadic hunters continually on the move trying to find enough to eat. That is when we started making our first baby steps toward civilization. I would argue that it is the warmer temperatures that permitted mankind to progress toward civilization.
What does warmer temperatures bring? It brings a more productive planet. Plants grow better in the warmth (that's why we were able to begin farming, after all).
It is a cooler climate that you should be terrified of, not a warmer climate. A cooler climate would bring more and more starvation and death by starvation as the Earth would become less and less productive. Just look at the small coolness of the period known as "The Little Ice Age". Just a little cooler weather brought about a great deal of hardship.
The scary thing about Global Warming is not that it might be happening, but that it might not be happening. When this interglacial period, the Holocene, ends and we slip back into another period of glaciation and temperatures drop dramatically. Starvation will follow and there will likely be major wars as mankind battles for the fewer and fewer natural resources available.
Rationally, you should fear cooling and welcome warming.
The scientific community overwhelmingly and emphatically disagrees with you. The people who know more about this topic than anyone else alive have found that what you're claiming is not the case, despite the fact they spend all their time testing, analyzing, trying to prove themselves wrong. They have failed to do so. Arguing the world is not getting warmer on average carries about as much credibility as arguing geocentricism.
But putting that aside, your argument hints at its own refutation.
The Holocene has indeed been a remarkably stable epoch. That stability is what has allowed civilization to flourish. It has allowed time for people to settle and expand communities, and to procure food and water. Civilization is predicated on it. Right now, we're quite possibly in a new epoch under which those conditions may not remain. Nearly all human beings live near water. Water levels are changing (floods and droughts). About one third of protein eaten by humans comes from the sea; oceanic ecosystems are collapsing (being
extremely sensitive to even small changes). Agriculture requires specific climates and inputs that will cease to be present in many places with what may seem like a slight change in temperature.
You mention a difference of 5F. You know that's massive, right? That exceeds what the scientific community has determined would be catastrophic levels of climate change. Things getting a bit hotter doesn't mean they're better; it means an existential threat to humanity.
This is the reality we face. If the current way of doing things contributes to it, it has to end. If it is also exploitative and cruel, all the more reason to cast it aside.
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