>>507343817Would that be raw satellite data? Or data that Pedro took from his urban heat island apartment in Granada?
Temperature goes up, temperature goes down. It's been that way for millions of years. The 1970s were freezing cold, and I know that they were because I lived through them and experienced the deep freeze personally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_1977
Facts:
1) Earth has been a greenhouse for most of its history, and when they occur, the Earth teems with life. Iceball periods (such as the one we are currently in) are anomalies, in which genetic diversity tends to decline.
2) Carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere were above 2000ppm until about 75 million years ago, when the Azolla Event occurred. Ferns in the Arctic Ocean (itself a big, isolated lake at the time) grew out of control, dropping the CO2 level to about 700ppm. Milankovitch cycles, plate tectonics and ocean currents did the rest, and from that point Earth went from greenhouse to our current iceball.
Members of the Gaia cult ought to consider what would happen to plant and animal life on the planet if we go back into a glacial period, like ten to twenty thousand years ago - or even a moderately cold period like the Little Ice Age.