“There’s a grim symmetry to this theory - that human beings had to wait for a period of climate stability before they could develop the technology to destabilize the climate. And it offers a rather dismal prognosis for the future, which Kolbert expressed this way:”
“An organism that depends on stability, but produces instability, can only survive for so long.”
What a crock. There is no natural “stability” (mean average temperature) that the earth “reached” and can only UNNATURALLY fall back from.
There were any number of times, prior to man, when the earth was “stable and warm” for longer than it has most recently been warm. And there has been and will continue to be periods of much greater cold, and periods of greater “warming”, even if humanity immigrated off of earth today.
Oh how arrogant humanity is.
In all fairness, not all of humanity; just a minor percentage of the most vocal and the most delusional. Some call themselves scientists, but have the temperament to be SS officers.
Man intuitively knows he cannot control natural processes. Hence the human sacrifices to persuade the gods for them to fix things.
Today, the IPCC report is 20% science and 80% politics; the politics of socialism, mostly. The political arm of the global warming cabal makes all the press releases.
The actual unedited scientific portion no longer is made available unedited.
Care to guess why?