To this I would add that all historical evidence is that warm is good.
By this I mean that in historical times past when we can infer that when it has been generally warm (sometimes warmer than now) that human civilization has flourished; also, when times have been cooler, never mind outright ice ages, things have been generally bad for civilization.
Since agrarian people are tied closely to the fortunes of nature in general, it really isn’t a stretch to say that warm has also been good for nature too just as cold has been universally bad.
Possibly the most fraudulent aspect of “global warming” isn’t really the man-made panic over man-sourced pollution, but the total dishonestly of the truth of if it is bad to be warmer at all
To listen to the AGW crowd you would have to imagine that Rome’s rise on the back of her stable agriculture (that fed the legions) and her decline as her native agriculture became unreliable had nothing to do with the weather.
Likewise to see the rise of both a prosperous Europe and of the Mississippian peoples (as examples) during the “little optimum” and their subsequent woes (or collapse) during that little cold snap we came out of only 150-160 years ago had nothing to do with the weather.
Yes, I’ll say it loud and strong: global warming is good. Or, put another way, what did those poor polar bears do to survive during the little optimum when there weren’t any Democrats to worry about them?
But as for the sun’s performance, you are right to say we don’t know what it will do despite our reasonable expectations about what it might do based on what we’ve observed in the past.
Absolutely correct. Before there was “technology” and our current (and recently passed) ages of Information and Industry basically permitted people to remain PUT, mass exoduses of people around the world from region to region occurred.
There have been several studies of where people lived, and how they migrated across Europe. One of those studies showed that most people are descended from a few people in a recent past (several thousand years ago now) and that there was some kind of disaster that killed most people on the planet. (I would guess it was an asteroid or something).
Still, those people survived because they moved to warmer climates apparently.
It’s thought that modern man lived through and became what we are today, while the Neanderthal race of humans died because they were more adept at living in COLDER climates, while modern man moved to and took over warmer climates. As the Ice Age climates fell back so did Neanderthal - whom eventually failed.
At least that’s the theory. There’s starting to be a bit of evidence to show this was probably the case.
Even so, warm IS good, and it allows us to grow more, feed more, create more population... and to me, this is a good sign we should be pushing for the Stars sooner, than later. While we have the technology and abilities, and while we can advance our human race on the planet, we should be pushing to move beyond this planet eventually.
PERHAPS we won’t go the way of the dinosaur and 99% of everything that’s already lived on this planet, huh?