Climate Change

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Mr K

I read it alright, and it's a daft question given the rate of climate change which is clearly not natural. If there's natural warming on top of that then we really are stuffed.

Like I said, every few thousand years, the climate changes, Geology proves that. Industrialisation has hastened that by a couple of hundred years.

Remember, ice has to melt somewhere, sea levels have to rise everywhere, ocean current change, some parts of the planet will be colder, some warmer.

All this net zero crap won't change a thing except make some *******s rich.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Would it be fair to say that, given the "few thousand years" cycle, had industrialisation not happened, then in a couple of hundred years' time humanity would be facing the same challenge as we seem to face now?

We just need to deal with this challenge sensibly, for example buying time with nuclear power while better energy solutions are found.

What took tens of thousands of years, even more than that, is now taking decades.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Would it be fair to say that, given the "few thousand years" cycle, had industrialisation not happened, then in a couple of hundred years' time humanity would be facing the same challenge as we seem to face now?

No, it would not be fair/accurate to say that, these changes take many thousands of years.
You can see from that timeline thats its been quite steady (changes within 0.5 ºC) for the last 10,000 years, and little evidence that much would have changed over the next few thousand either, certainly not in a couple of hundred years.