The important thing to remember is that we should all be terrified all the time about things we can't control, and we should always trust doomsday predictions even though none of them has ever come to pass.
Other than that, life had been good since the glaciers have melted away from the equator.
Say, does anyone know what the correct climate is for the earth? Was is when earth was covered in ice, or was it when earth was mostly hot and a tropical furnace?