(07-29-2021, 12:05 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote: The earth, billions of years old, is constantly evolving and nothing we have now is more or less than anything we've had before, and as a species humans will evolve with the weather.
Humans are destroying the planet. More fires earth quakes volcanos hurricanes plagues than any other decade or century or millennia because humans can't stop destroying everything.
The earth does not evolve. Species evolve. Multi cellular life is only about 500 million years old.
Species are able to evolve through natural selection because changes are gradual, allowing for time to adapt. However, having said that we've had mass extinction events before, most notably at the end of the Permian, when 95% of species were wiped out.
Human activity has nothing to do with volcanoes. Far fewer 'plagues' now than in the past. We're incredibly lucky to be living in this age. Even a century ago, people were dying of smallpox and children were facing the prospect of an iron lung after contracting polio. If we go back a little further, to 1878, Princess Alice, the daughter of Queen Victoria, and her eldest daughter, choked to death from diphtheria. A simple shaving cut could kill you then. To say nothing of infant or maternal mortality.
We are the luckiest of all generations of humans. But reading the press, you wouldn't think so. Particularly, the 'liberal' press. The media's business model is sensationalism one way or the other. Scare mongering works just as well. It is helped by the fact that most journalists are thoroughly ignorant of science because if they weren't, let's face it, they'd be working elsewhere. Political journalism remains the only respectable work in that category. But mostly, it's the desire to be sensationalist, to whip up a frenzy and damn the facts.
The right wing media is also agenda driven, and serves to whip up frenzy on the other side. It is particularly pernicious in the English speaking countries where Rupert Murdoch holds sway. These countries are also home to right wing conspiracy nuts, anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, and QAnon types because people can be public nuisances in these countries without facing consequences. Also, popular culture in these countries - particularly the US - is proudly anti-intellectual, so no matter if they flunk history, because it is theyr right to hold an opinion as the founding fathers would of known.
Coming to climate alarmism - we've just had the coldest, wettest winter here in Australia in years. Do you hear anybody talking about that?
This is not to deny anthropogenic GW - it is happening, but the impacts are more subtle and over a longer period of time than the media would like. Heat waves and a warm summer are not AGW. Floods are as much a result of building on the floodplain as anything else.
But Londoners needing an AC by default in their homes today compared to 2005 is probably AGW.
