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How is it that life made it 4 billion years on this planet through much more drastic climate changes than this only to be done in by a change in sea level and 1.9 to 5 degrees in temperature change?

Howcome? I've thought about this in raspberry tones.

Ted Danson, in the 1970 - 1990 time period, predicted that the oceans were dying and that man had to do something. If not, within 10 years the oceans would be done in. Somehow, Ted missed his prediction. The oceans didn't pay a bit of attention to him.

We now see all the doomsday scenarios being written in models on every available supercomputer. You may note that almost every dire climate prediction is written in terms of having to do something now or in short order (within the magic twenty years) the planet will be gone. Poof! Hockeysticked into oblivion!

Nevermind the fact that whatever we do, the earth and sun together will interact to choose the future course of the climate. I can predict with utmost confidence that the planet's temperature (note the use of the portentious word PLANET) will either go up or go down or stay steady. It's very, very doubtful that we can do a darned thing to affect which way it goes. And any effective action we might take won't involve reducing "greenhouse" gases. I have no idea what it might involve, but we seem to have a bunch of scientists, MSM journalists and others who can only say "hockeysticked into ruinous temperature rises".

Back to the original question - Howcome? Man's life span is less than 100 years. In order for this generation to get in on the action, the grants, and the power redistribution which might ensue, the action must take place within twenty or thirty years. That's why all the predictions are near term, and hockeystick themselves into crises that only reducing average atmospheric CO₂ will save. Well, Captain Marvels, have at it. Here's the puck.......

Just leave our economies alone, forget the idea of a Commissar of Carbon Dioxide, and other such hockeypuck ideas.