Maggie's Farm

You could pick any one of a number of modern cities that are on the same site as their ancient forebears, I like to point to London (Londinium). There has been a city on that spot for two thousand years, before and after the Medieval warm period, the Danes farmed where there are glaciers today on Greenland and the seas between North America and Europe were fairly free of ice.

So my question is, why didn't any of the English Monks write about the flooding of coastal London?

I'm not daft, there are ancient seabeds in the middle of the American Southwest and other indications of similar changes in sea-level and land elevation all over the world. Most of it occurring before there was any possibility of human causality. Nor do I think that the modern industrial age has had zero impact on the climate, but volcanoes have zero impact on the climate, until they do and then they can overwhelm the earths climate beyond our pathetic efforts.

So do humans do to, or are we more likely to be done to? The next time a comet, or volcano or solar nap/flareup decides to really shake our world do we want a rich humanity with a fully functioning economy and tech base, festooned with nuclear power plants on every continent? Or a wheezing, minimalist world with one foot already in the grave.

You, with the Greenpeace Tshirt, sit down. You've already made your choice.