Captain Climate Action

Matthew Wielicki, has posted a screenshot of this Smithsonian exhibit chart a few times, but he STILL hasn't READ the source article? It REFUTES his non-expert opinions.😉 web.archive.org/web/20250203… From the article: "Editor's note (11/22/2023): Over the years, we have heard from readers who tell us that they have seen this article being cited by people who deny the reality or seriousness of human-caused global warming. To make it harder for anyone to mischaracterize this article, we are adding this note: The fact that Earth has been hotter in the past than it is today doesn't prove that recent global warming is natural. Forest fires can have both natural and human causes. So can climate change. It is partly through figuring out what caused the periods like the ones described in this article that we came to understand that carbon dioxide sets the thermostat of Earth's climate. The fact that Earth has been hotter in the past than it is today doesn't prove that current warming is harmless, either to people or other life on Earth. Some previous hot periods led to global mass extinctions. The hot house periods described in this article occurred millions and millions of years before humans existed. They have no bearing on whether modern human civilization can cope with the level of warming we are likely to face if we do not stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Like nothing we’ve ever seen: Earth’s hottest periods—the Hadean, the late Neoproterozoic, the Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse, the PETM—occurred before humans existed. Those ancient climates would have been like nothing our species has ever seen. Modern human civilization, with its permanent agriculture and settlements, has developed over just the past 10,000 years or so. The period has generally been one of low temperatures and relative global (if not regional) climate stability. Compared to most of Earth’s history, today is unusually cold; we now live in what geologists call an interglacial—a period between glaciations of an ice age. But as greenhouse-gas emissions warm Earth’s climate, it's possible our planet has seen its last glaciation for a long time."

Trump's newly annointed NON-expert on climate change Matthew Wielicki got caught posting an old newspaper meme misrepresenting a 20yr old paper Cook et al 2006 on droughts. He didn't even READ the paper or ANY of the much more recent research by the same authors which all REFUTE his ignorant opinions. When I challenged him with the much more recent research, he deflected by claiming "there's the trick- restarting the clock in 1500". They did not. Once again, he didn't even read the papers. He just looked at the title of the first paper I posted & ignored all the others which covered the last millenium and last 2000 years (not just since 1500). Here's yet another paper by the same authors covering the last 2000 years that refutes his non-expert opinions: "Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene" Cook et al 2022 nature.com/articles/s43017-0… "Anthropogenic climate change has intensified ongoing megadroughts in south-western North America and across Chile and Argentina. Future megadroughts will be substantially warmer than past events, with this warming driving projected increases in megadrought risk and severity across many regions, including western North America, Central America, Europe and the Mediterranean, extratropical South America, and Australia." Wielicki likes to call others "intellectually lazy"? 😂