That's hardly a comfort and in fact supports climate change alarm. In that 5 billion years, there have been 5 mass extinctions where virtually all life on the planet was wiped out and it started over. This was in some cases attributed to the massive amounts of carbon trapped in the Earth's crust being thoroughly released by seismic activity.
Only, in the modern industrial world, instead of volcanos, it's us extracting the carbon trapped in the rock and burning it. So, how would you not expect the same consequences as "last time" if it continues unabated?
Yes, the Earth will survive, but most life as we know it on it would not.
That is according to the doom sayers and the politicians who feed at the trough and tell us what is "best for us" much like the total destruction of the Amazon Rain forest....but it is still there decades after it's predicted demise due to responsible forestry harvesting.....hey how about that evil hole in the Ozone layer?
According to Al Gore New York city was supposed to be underwater about 14 years ago.According to David Suzuki Canada and indeed all countries that have coastal cities will face catastrophic ocean levels.....yet he owns 4 homes in Vancouver with his principal mansion located at the Capilanno Yacht Club.
Have you even checked out or looked at the sheer HYPOCRACY of the UNIPCC meetings/gatherings?When it was hosted in Morocco in a purpose built non permanent structure it had air conditioning and ALL of the buses used to transport the delegates sat running and burning diesel because heaven forfend none of those people should have to ride back to their luxury hotel rooms in a bus that might take say 10 minutes to cool down on the inside from the desert heat.
All of those thousands of people attending the event and at the same just feeding at the trough.Good example is that Hypocrite Elizabeth May of the Green Party.She did not represent the Government of Canada but she attended and no doubt guzzled down a few bottles of wine and stuffed her face on the tax payer dime and at the same time she flew there on an airplane....oh but she "green washed it" because she bought "carbon off-sets".
I call bullshit on the very mention of "Climate Change" when a country like Canada that produces less than 2% of GHG emissions saddles it's citizens with taxes whilst at the same time Canada's northern boreal forest cleans up 50% of world wide GHG emissions and a country like China is one of the worst emitters can continue to do the same and in fact increase it's output for more than the next decade.
Climate Change and the movement behind it is nothing but a sham and a tax grab on western society.
SR