[itsamelman]

The Earth is several billion years old. "Records" go back only a couple hundred years. Accurate records go back 50? years. The last 50 years out of four billion ... yeah, that makes it easy to spot a trend.

yep.

A Chronology of the Earth

Event	Date	Time	Years Ago
Big Bang	Jan. 1	12:00 AM	15,000,000,000 yr
CMB forms	Jan. 1	12:10:30 AM	14,999,700,000 yr
Galaxies form	Jan. 24	12:00 AM	14,000,000,000 yr
Sun forms	Sept. 13	noon	4,500,000,000 yr
Earth forms	Sept. 13	12:17 PM	4,400,000,000 yr
1st life appears	Oct. 24	8:48 PM	2,800,000,000 yr
1st higher forms	Dec. 19	3:07 AM	570,000,000 yr
1st land animals	Dec. 25	4:29 AM	280,000,000 yr
1st dinosaurs	Dec. 26	12:36 PM	225,000,000 yr
Dinos Rule!	Dec. 28	4:34 PM	136,000,000 yr
Dinos Die!	Dec. 29	10:02 PM	65,000,000 yr
Earliest "human"	Dec. 31	9:05 PM	5,000,000 yr
Neanderthal - CM	Dec. 31	11:50 PM	300,000 yr
Last Ice Age	Dec. 31	11:59:37 PM	11,000 yr
Pyramids	Dec. 31	11:59:53 PM	3,500 yr
USA	Dec. 31	11:59:59.6 PM	220 yr
You	Dec. 31	11:59:59.96 PM	20 yr

[Sgt_Schultze]

Great table. That’s a lot of typing. Can you put on the predictor’s hat and guess when the scientists will realize we are in more danger from the next ice age than from warming?

[alwaysconservative]

Neat chart!