Anybody who thinks that humans have a particle of influence on climate should go and visit the Petrified Forest. There you will see trees that are (you guessed it) petrified. They are 10 times more dense than granite and they are sticking out of the sides of cliffs, revealed as the desert terrain erodes away. There was a volcano eruption that knocked them down and covered them with ash 217 MILLION years ago. It was a subtropical forest. There are fossils of strange fat alligator-things that lived in the swamp. The real surprise to me was that the entire continent was in the Southern Hemisphere! North America wasn't even north. Numerous mass extinctions, numerous ice ages and warming cycles are in earth's history and geologically, we are still coming out of the last ice age. Greenland was named that not to be ironic, there were prosperous settlements there and they raised their own food there.
Humans have only been on the earth for a blink in time and at the rate we're going, that blink will be as long as we're here. You can fuss and complain and apply as many carbon taxes as you wish and it will not make a particle of difference. Our planet will shrug us off like curing a disease and will continue spinning away despite our best efforts to stop it.
Why do we expect the Arctic to stay frozen and glaciers, which have been melting for thousands of years, should suddenly stop melting?
"Climate Emergency" is a ruse, dedicated to separating us from our wealth and impoverishing countries that rely on fossil fuel. "Carbon tax" is a very clever idea dreamed up by a politician, or George Soros, perhaps, to attach near religious fervour to the looting of your wallet.
Now does it make sense to foul our nests? Not really, we can make life better here, but change the climate? 70+ percent of all forest fires are set by humans; any luck stopping people from throwing garbage out of their car windows? Dumping garbage in the woods? Desmogging their cars so they go faster? Good luck with all that.
