I don't really want to get into the climate change debate, because I really don;t understand why teams sprung up and became a competition in the first place.
However the one idea that I think can be correct, because I think its plausible, is that modern civilised society seems to be a result of a favourable climate over the last (I really dunno) 5k years, with manipulation of it through artificial workplace and domestic heating and cooling originally combined with "Made in England" industrial revolution putting a bounce in its step?
Scientists from both camps seem to relate to a romantic notion the environment and climate a million years ago was a place where gig brained hippie type people used big gyrogearloose words and walked around in refrigerated or peltier heated animal skins, lived in air conditioned gunyahs, motored around in giant kangaroo pouches and had a bum sitting job data mining while pontificating the perils of climate change....just like them.
My take is that 300 years ago people still believed in witches, four humours, flat earth, sea serpents, etc. then the textile industry bump started early 1700s when the Brits put a tariff on textile imports and the industrial revolution took off as did fossil fuel burn. If we can go from zero to hero in 300 years, surely we can go from hero to deity in 50 years?
