15 Nov '19 13:27>3 edits
@metal-brain saidWOW what a massive straw man you are saying here!
I agree. Neanderthals lived during the Ice Age. That is a much more challenging environment to adapt to than GW and people are trying to get others to panic about it. As if we cannot adapt to a changing climate better than a Neanderthal. So absurd.
Some people just have this need to think the end of the world is coming. Remember how Y2K was supposed to make everything ...[text shortened]... valued. Even democrats are buying it. Go figure. It is as if they don't believe their own rhetoric.
NOBODY here is saying/implying we cannot adapt to climate change.
We all say we CAN adapt to climate change, including harmful climate change, just like we can adapt to almost any other harmful change; That doesn't mean harm will not still be done in the process; because harm WILL happen in the process. There will still be some populations harmed by greater floods, hurricanes etc. but humanity as a whole will adapt and nobody here is saying humanity as a whole cannot adapt, because that's stupid; Got that now?
Oh, and by the way, the latest scientific evidence suggests Neanderthals did NOT adapt to the last climate they experienced but rather actually become EXTINCT at least partly as a result of climate change:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-we-didn-t-kill-the-neanderthals-climate-change-did-new-stud-1.6414271
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The researchers reconstructed the climate of prehistoric central Europe by analyzing stalagmites from two caves in Romania. They discovered that the region went through two periods of extremely cold temperatures, even by Ice Age standards, around the time when Neanderthal populations dwindle and then disappear from the fossil record in what used to be the heartland of their territory.
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I still have little doubt that we humans were at least partly responsible but the fact remains the evidence suggests climate change was also at least partly responsible for causing their extinction and at most we merely helped to make it even less likely they wouldn't go extinct.