zlacker

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+(OP)
> 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?