“A discussion about the health benefits of drinking water...?”
Huh? I thought it was a discussion about what might have caused the temperature drop of the ‘Little Ice Age.’
Since science has been recording atmospheric CO2 and temperature, changes in CO2 lag behind changes in temperature. Reconstructed CO2 and temperature record going back thousands of years show the same pattern. A few handfuls of catastrophic events in the past billion years have seen CO2 concentrations surging so fast that it overwhelmed the systems that maintain a relatively stable climate. These rare exceptions tell us that the moderating systems can be overwhelmed but so what?
Changes in CO2 lag changes in temperature except when extremely rare catastrophic events release overwhelming amounts of CO2. Drinking water is healthy except in extremely rare cases where people drink overwhelming amounts. My analogy is brilliant.