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The fact that climatic conditions have always been and will always be in a state of flux is undeniable.
At this point of time, although the earth is moving towards another ice age while fluctuating between warming and cooling trends, the overarching trend is towards another extinction event.
There is nothing that humanity can do about this, the process has been ongoing for millions of years, as indicated by the aragonite sea phase, a precursor to previouly recorded extinction events.
There is much debate over whether global warming is occurring or not, the debate is a little like arguing over small inconsequentials, like how many flies do indeed make a summer.
In the grand scheme of things, most life forms will be dead by the end of this extinction phase, at least one ice age will have passed by then, several warming and cooling periods will have occurred,the seas will havecrisen and fallen several times, and there is nothing that humanity can do to avert these events.
It's true that industrial and other forms of pollution have exacerbated some negative environmental and climatic conditions, such as increasingly extreme weather patterns, the dying out of several species of life, rising sea levels, increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations and so on, but neither political chicanery, carbon taxes nor any form of attempted human intervention is going to avert the inevitable extinction phase, ice ages, sea rises and climate changes that are ahead of us.
Much of the debate arising around the issue is more to do with political jockeying and financial fiddling based on false information supplied by governments and financial institutions looking to make a fast buck out of peoples fears.
Get over it, face the facts, climate cahange is in processas part ofa massive extinction event.
There's nothing anyone can do about it, except cover their own a@ses.