Short, Succinct and Brutal

From a post I made in the Bar.:



Test question 1: is the Earth warming?

We're recovering from the Little Ice Age, so yes.

We're recovering from the Last Glacial Maximum, so yes.

Geologists who specialize in tectonics say that we're moving away from a landlocked polar ocean, without which there is no basin for a cap (North), and a continental pole surrounded by water (South), without which there isn't a platform for a cap, so yes--for the next several million years. During most of the Earth's hist...