In 1999, Mann, Bradley and Hughes published a reconstruction of temperatures for the past thousand years, later expanded to cover the past two thousand, based on proxy data. It was described as a hockey stick diagram because it showed temperature as fairly flat and declining until about the past century, the handle of the hockey stick, followed by a sharp rise, the blade. One controversial feature was that it did not show the medieval warm period and the subsequent little ice age reported by earlier studies. Their results implied that current temperatures were higher than any in the past two thousand years, including the peak of the Medieval Warm Period, and that the warming of the past century was substantially faster than warming in the past.
"The fact that it was above its current level by more than five degrees for most of the past 250 million years and by more than ten degrees for substantial parts of the past hundred million is evidence against the more extreme versions of climate catastrophism."
I don't think this is right. It is not much of an argument unless you interpolate "and humanity lived through those 250m years just fine," and there's a problem with that.
Basically we are being perfectly rational, from our own perspective, but it isn't clicking with other people. Apparently people would rather stress about global warming than.... Than what?
"The fact that it was above its current level by more than five degrees for most of the past 250 million years and by more than ten degrees for substantial parts of the past hundred million is evidence against the more extreme versions of climate catastrophism."
I don't think this is right. It is not much of an argument unless you interpolate "and humanity lived through those 250m years just fine," and there's a problem with that.
Why isn't this more acceptable socially?
Watching you write about global warming is a little bit like me writing about artificial intelligence and G-d.
(Would love if you would comment on https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-vs-g-d?sd=pf)
Basically we are being perfectly rational, from our own perspective, but it isn't clicking with other people. Apparently people would rather stress about global warming than.... Than what?