Melting Alpine glaciers are revealing a previous age of global warming 9,500 years ago. A race is on to retrieve artifacts from that era. (See https://www.sciencealert.com/melting-alpine-glaciers-yield-archaeologic-troves-but-clock-ticking)
Somehow the world survived that global warming, just as we
can survive the current global warming we are being urged to meet with panic.
Our global warming too is an act of nature. Any human
contribution is at most the unintended by-product of the actions of billions of
people over a period of 250 years.
The global-warming panic is the product of the philosophy of
collectivism. It is assumed that the human race is an actual living, acting,
responsible entity and that the individual human being is interchangeable with
it.
Thus, an individual must be prohibited from driving his car,
using air conditioning or refrigeration, or eating red meat if he is to avoid
being charged with responsibility for global warming.
In the same way, he does not want to bother to distinguish
between specific points in time. Thus, he sees and presents the prospect of a hundred
feet rise in the sea level over the course of centuries as though it were to happen
all at once next year.
