The earth's climate has never been static. I find it odd that people expect some sort of stasis at this point in time just because they happen to be here.
The current sharp increase in a span of a century is completely unprecedented.
Six orders of magnitude makes a huge difference.
Wrong. The last ice age only ended about 11000 years ago -- our ancestors lived in a world where most of the British isle was covered by ice.
> The current sharp increase in a span of a century is completely unprecedented.
This might still be true, however. Mankind should do something about its carbon emissions. But please stop all this doom saying, please.
Human carbon barf is not.
The point is we‘re talking about immense natural geological climate changes happening on the order of 1000 years within the life time of all human kind.
It’s disingenuous framing to imply mankind to go extinct because of the current temperature trends.
Again, this doesn’t mean we should just watch and go on burning coal. But it’s a bit ridiculous seeing intelligent people on HN to get carried away by scaremongering.