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[–]weavilsatemyface[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What do you think that's going to prove?

Over time spans of billions of years, the output of the sun and the earth's climate has changed a lot. Yes we know that. Why do you think it is even a tiny bit relevant?

  • Billions of years ago, the earth was a lifeless ball of molten rock, and there was no life on the planet, let alone human civilization.
  • Hundreds of millions of years ago, the earth was a frozen wasteland where nothing more complicated than bacteria and undersea worms could survive.
  • The last time the earth was four degrees hotter than it is now, 90% of the land area on earth was a baking hot desert where only lizards could survive.
  • Even when the climate changes slowly, over tens of thousands of years, it still causes major disruption to natural systems.
  • Short term climate change, even if it lasts only a few decades, causes massive disruption to human populations and nations. Empires and nations fall.
  • Rapid climate change in a time frame of a century or less is absolutely unprecedented in all of human history.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Now do one for the last 6 months. Watch that average line fly.