| ▲ | quotemstr 3 hours ago | |
Nah. For centuries up to the 1850s, climate was looking pretty dicy. The little ice age, had it gone on, might have represented a return a big ice age. The heroic efforts of early industrialists adding carbon to the atmosphere avoided this calamity and set us up with a level of comfy and productive climate unknown in the quaternary. Amazing how humanity keeps lucking out like this. | ||
| ▲ | didgetmaster 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I wonder if there were any climate change alarmists around 20,000 years ago; telling everyone that the planet was doomed if those mile-deep glaciers covering New York ever melted? | ||