Yeah, but 10,000 years on a geological scale is nothing. If you're actually proposing that that cycle grinding to a halt in the space of 200 years (and I'm not saying it has or necessarily will) is just to expected at some point, you're an idiot. That's not how things work.
That's not why there's fossils in polar and subpolar regions. It's called plate tectonics, dummy. The surface is floating around on an ocean of molten rock, and slides around.
A ten million years ago, the continents weren't anywhere near where they are now. Same goes for ten million years before that, and before that, ad infinitum. Well, at least back until the crust solidified, and tectonics began.
But point is that the temperature had damn all to do with fossil formation.
Okay, then I'm officially putting you in charge of the problem. Your job is now to make sure we have enough food at an affordable cost. Also you can't turn away refugees, since you'll probably say it's up to them to take care of themselves, which would include moving out of a barren desert.
Also, you're officially in charge of relocating everyone on the coast inland. Specifically, you're required to salvage 75% of everything, so we don't leave tens of trillions worth of progress at the bottom of our newly expanded coastal shelf.
Yeah, adapt, exploit, take advantage of. Excellent verbiage for dealing with crisis. I'm sure some love muffin can find a way to profit off of NYC being flooded out and Africa becoming a desert. Because that's all that matters. Exploitation of misfortune to improve your own life.
Suggest you go back to schooling. Plate tectonics or not. the polar regions havent always been frozen over.
There have been both warming and cooling periods throughout earths history. Some taking place rather quickly. Just look at our own very recent midevil warm period and mini ice age (which we just came out of) Both of which people adapted and relocated if they needed to.
I wont need to be in charge of moving everyone. You think people are going to wake up one morning with the ocean outside their front door? Based on your overall response it is painfully obvious that you watch entirely too much Hollywood.
There are solutions to all the problems you mention. And just as soon as it becomes profitable to implement them. They will be done. Mark my words.
We have the technology available already so that Africa doesnt need to be a desert. There is currently no profit in it so its not being done
Climate Change. The only consistent thing this planet has ever done is change. You alluded as much yourself. We either adapt and exploit those changes as we have always done. Or we cease being guests on this planet just like over 90% of all the species that have ever existed have.
Adapt and exploit. That is the absolute best and only RL option because one thing is for sure. Even if what you are having panic attacks over are true. We arent going to change the climate. Even if it were possible (and I dont believe it is) If you have any sense of realism about you at all. You can only conclude that in the real world, you arent going to get the world entire to agree to co operate to make the needed changes.
So that leads us right back to the only realistic option. Adapt and exploit. And we are already starting to do exactly that
