@SW-User You do realize the base for those measurements was as the world was coming out of the 'little ice age', arguably the coldest three centuries since the the current interglacial began around 12,000 year ago. Our current stabilised temperature is still lower than the medieval warm period (Global temperatures - very difficult to define, by the way - stopped increasing around 2000) and sea levels have been increasing at an unchanged rate since 1850 - around the ens of the little ice age. Literally NO increase in rate of change in 21st century. Read some genuine science - not the alarmist zealotry of malthusian nutters.
@Troy123 I understand. Maybe, during those billions of years, the civilisation reset button has been triggered several times over. Perhaps our current civilisation is just accelerating when the next reset happens, give and take a few thousand years??
@Ironicman From what I understand, the industrial revolution started in (I think) 1745 in Britian with one wool die factory. That's 270 odd years. I don't know if that short amount of time could have such an effect. I also believe that they have not factored in sun spot activity.
In fact this program should really have been called CLIMATE CHANGE - THE MYTHS it was so scientifically incoherent and lacking in actual facts, rather than feelings.
Anyone with an open mind, and willing to read a serious and scientific critique of the program should visit this site:
I haven't changed my opinion, in that I've always believed that we humans have the ability to affect climate. It's the acceleration that's alarming. There's an obvious correlation with the rise in consumerism which shouldn't surprise anyone. Many ancient civilisations chose to live in harmony with nature and maybe we should look back to learn before we go forward.
@SW-User Good luck with that. Given there is no other habitable planet in our solar system, the nearest rocky exoplanet may be around Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star approximately 12 light years away - that is 60,880,000,000,000 miles. But chances for a habitable environment around a red dwarf star are roughly the square root of zero.
You have been reading too may alarmist prognostications. The thing you really should be worried about is the rather sudden return of glacial conditions. Remember, we are moving towards the end of a typical 14-18,000 year interglacial of the quaternary glaciation era. The earth - and humans - will survive. Our planet has remarkable self-correcting mechanisms which the infinitesimally small human presence has no effect on at all. But stock up on fur coats. The big chill is just around the corner in geological time.
