According to that site, it says 30 years of more is climate change which is just a blip in time in the 4 billion year history of the Earth.
Scientists have recorded five significant ice ages throughout the Earth’s history: the Huronian (2.4-2.1 billion years ago), Cryogenian (850-635 million years ago), Andean-Saharan (460-430 mya), Karoo (360-260 mya) and Quaternary (2.6 mya-present). Approximately a dozen major glaciations have occurred over the past 1 million years, the largest of which peaked 650,000 years ago and lasted for 50,000 years. The most recent glaciation period, often known simply as the “Ice Age,” reached peak conditions some 18,000 years ago before giving way to the interglacial Holocene epoch 11,700 years ago.
https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/ice-age
Scientists have concluded that the Earth started warming about 12,000 years ago. Was this a natural phenomenon or did humans cause it? With 8 billion people, of course we are going to be affected by weather events. How many people were killed or injured in America a thousand years ago? I would say it would be almost none. People build their homes in the forests and then complain when it gets burned down by forest fires. Thats not climate change or weather, its human hubris. We damn up rivers and water our grass and then complain there is no water, again thats human hubris. If humans are the cause of climate change then the only 2 options are population control or abandoning all modern conveniences and go back to a preindustrial civilization.
People will never give up their modern convivences and cell phones but will continue to complain about climate change. The internet and 5G is a monster and needs an enormous amount of electricity to run.
Meanwhile, trillions will be spent on so called climate change solutions but in the end it will have no effect.
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Jinx (3040)
a year ago
Thanks for putting so much effort into this so that i could see exactly where you are coming from. I have to say that about 20 years ago I agreed with what you are saying and that was my stance. However with access to new information, I changed my mind.
The topic really interested me and I wanted to know things like, how can we possibly know what the weather was like even 500 years ago, not to mention what the weather was like over thousands of years? My original opinion was formed after I saw a graph of the global warming and cooling only I didn't know where the knowledge for that graph was coming from.
So that's when I dug into the ice core research which is absolutely fascinating! I had so many questions about how the ice cores were read and how that information could be interpreted. I thought originally that we were getting just a scientific 'estimated guess' on these ice cores, but at this point it is so much more than I could have imagined. We have a literal LIBRARY of these cores now and having so MANY has really changed the science and given us a clearer picture on what's going on. If you are interested, you could look at photos of the ice core library, it is vast and just a really cool thing to see regardless of what you think about the scientist who do that research.
You absolutely are on point when you say that people build their homes in places that are prone to disaster and then are shocked when they get smooshed by mother nature, I can't believe that people are stupid enough to keep living in New Orleans and crying when it floods.
You are also right about people not giving up on their modern energy sucking devices.
I just don't understand why you would post about the blizzards being proof that climate change or global warming isn't happening. That's a fundamental misunderstanding of how weather works. When the planet heats up and the icecaps start melting a lot of evaporation happens, releasing into the air and forming clouds >
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