Informative; thanks! I am not one of those climate change alarmists (in fact, I think the whole issue is being used as a cover to severely limit non-"elite" families' access to energy), but I do have to admit a ten degree F hotter Earth (to say nothing of 20 or 30) is going to make a lot of places very uncomfortable for me, being of Norwegian ancestry and having grown up in Alaska.
One of the things I almost never see mentioned in the various climate debates is the observation that Earth is historically on the cooler side and is rising from that very low base.
The planet has historically gone through multiple cycles of not having polar ice caps and then having them again, etc. Over millions of years. There's been a really long-term feedback loop there.
I'm not a climate scientist by any stretch, but I just find that general omission in public discussions around it to be interesting.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been
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