Comment Re:Holocene optimum (Score 1) 1046
"There were not enough Men present on the Earth 9000 years ago to create an 8C increase in temperature so something else caused it and we aren't sure what but orbital variations are a popular theory. The Earth has these temperate periods of 10-20 thousand years, roughly every hundred thousand years - and then they end. That was 8C. The AGW claimed here is about 1.5C, and it seems to have stopped for now."
No, it's still warming. And as for the cause of the Holocene optimum, it's known to be orbital and we know that's not what's causing the current warming.
"Warm, though? We can deal with warm. The Earth has been much warmer in the past and it didn't self destruct. Some people will have to move, but they won't have to run - the change happens very slowly."
Before it happened slowly. The current change is actually quite rapid. I think there have been similar situations when the climate changed very rapidly and the die-off was something over 90%. Personally, I don't think it'll get that bad, but with likely long-term drought in the internal regions of the continents, life could get very interesting.