Will anyone benefit from Climate Change?

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The human race has benefited from a mild interglacial period starting about 20,000 ybp with the ending of the last great Ice Age. Human civilization has developed in the past 15,000 years with the introduction of agriculture, cities and sea travel. All this has been promoted by relatively mild weather since the end of the Ice Age. With the exception of the Younger Dryas period and the Little Ice Age from aboig shut 1300 c.e. to 1750 .c.e the climate of the earth has been very moderate. Not too hot, not to cold with the climate mostly stenady and not changing erratically.

Our next big climate shift is going into another Ice Age. The human race has been around for 250,000 year (homo sapien) and the Neanderthals rose about 25,000 earlier. Both of these human varieties have survived the last Ice Age. Homo Sapien did better than Neanderthal and we are the surviving human species on the planet. Most likely some of the human races will survive the next Ice Age.

It is highly unlikely that the current warming trend will turn our planet into Venus, contrary to what Carl Sagan predicted and spoke of billyuns and billyuns of times.

ruvey

^Around here, it certainly FEELS like we've entered the next ice age.

The next ice age? We're already in an ice age.

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We are in an interglacial period. The glaciers are not advancing, but are retreating.

We have been (largely) in a moderate interglacial period for about 15,000 years. There were two cold snaps, the Younger Dryas and the Little Ice Age (recent: from 1300 c.e. to about 1750 c.e.)

Most likely, the glaciers will start advancing sometime in the not too distant future. The human race will survive this.

ruveyn

Yes. This interglacial period, the Holocene, is part of the current ice age.

I agree that the human race will surely survive the next period of glaciation, but at an enormous cost of human misery as starvation becomes a fact of life for nearly everyone as well as wars to gain control of resources.

This is part of why I think it's important for us to start terraforming celestial bodies, so that we don't have so many people fighting over everything on one miserable floating rock. Mars, the Moon, Ganymede, Titan, we should try to establish populations in all of those places.

Disney World - visitors will be able to walk to the beach.