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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
All true, but I'll add best independent, non-political estimates are that human activity will simply delay the next ice age by about 5,000 years---and that is due to the rise of agriculture in Asia over the last 8,000 years and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LAST 200 YEARS OF BURNING FOSSIL FUELS.
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I think it's a stackable thing. Problem A happened, and then problem B happened, while problems C, D, and E were lining up to happen simultaneously. Then problems F and G happened, and then - the tipping point, was drilling enormous holes in the planet, sucking out the oil and leaving hollow pockets, and burning all of that oil into the atmosphere. I think it would've had little to no effect on climate change if nothing else had also already happened. But because all those other things happened - this was the thing that said "y'know what, Mother Nature is having a big sad. Her tears were glaciers, and now they're breaking off and doing things they weren't supposed to do until the human race evolved again."