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It has been far hotter in the past, including geologically recent times. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...

>>idlewo+(OP)
You've been far deader in the past, so nothing to worry about.

>>titzer+t4
You can worry about stuff without getting your facts wrong.

>>idlewo+X8
You could also post relevant facts, like stuff that happened more recently than 55 million years ago, when there were no humans, not even apes or monkeys.

I feel like this is a really old, easily debunked argument. Rapid change toward a much warmer climate is likely to kick off a very abrupt extinction event. Which, incidentally, has already begun.

>>titzer+Jq
The point of this argument is that humans as a species are not going to go extinct (we have thumbs!) and life on Earth existed for millions of years at far hotter temperatures than even the worst-case warming scenario.

None of this makes climate change a good thing, but it's a useful corrective to headlines that suggest we're entering some kind of uncharted territory for the planet. The planet can take a lot more than we're dishing out, even if individual species can't.

>>idlewo+NS
> The point of this argument is that humans as a species are not going to go extinct (we have thumbs!)

And your evidence for that is temperatures millions of years ago, when neither we nor any of our close ancestors lived?

>>titzer+t4
You kid, but this is the primary way I cope with mortality.