March 8th, 2019 : Save Limey’s houses

[xoxoxoBruce]

I’m told between 1500AD and 1600AD Europeans caused the death of 90% the natives of the Americas, approximately 56 million people. OK, I’ll buy that because it really doesn’t matter now, except for unproductive guilt trips and shaming.

But then they go on to claim that all the land these natives were growing food on lay fallow, so ground cover then forests took over which was a major contributor the Little Ice Age in Europe. That’s where the Thames froze regularly, snowstorms were common in Portugal, and famines throughout Europe. All this was interesting but what caught my attention is all this trouble was caused by a world average temperature drop of 0.15C! (0.27F!)

Then they say in the last century deforestation, industrializing, and greenhouse gasses have raised the planet’s temperature about 1C (1.8F) which will cause increasingly severe storms, drought, heatwaves, coastal flooding and food insecurity, unless we drastically cut emissions within a decade.

I have no way of knowing if they are bullshitting me, and if so it’s intentionally or unintentionally. But this is the first time I’ve seen such big claims from such tiny numbers. I haven't seen any predictions of glacier melt tied to those numbers.

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