Stop pretending we can control temperature

If the people of Spaceship Earth could all come together and give a mighty push against the west walls of their homes at the same time, we could maybe slow the Earth’s rotation a fraction or two and reduce our planet’s friction with our atmosphere — and sell a bunch of T-shirts.

Failing that, maybe the human race can come to grips with the fact that the temperature of our old mud ball of a planet has been radically fluctuating up and down for a few billion years, and any erupting volcano like Mt. Pinatubo or Krakatoa is going to erase 100 years of progress of any anti-warming campaign.

Mankind’s truly great modern advancements all occurred in our past degree increase in the planet’s temperature, so one has to wonder just what mankind will achieve should the planet increase another degree. In agriculture alone, could we raise more crops to the point where we could eradicate world hunger?

This story was originally published September 28, 2017 at 12:35 PM with the headline "Stop pretending we can control temperature."