Originally Posted by accountinquestion View Post
When we run out of oil? Look at all the stuff around you based on petro-chemicals. There is no winning here. Pretty much downhill. Only question is how quality of life will be impacted over a timeframe a TINY TINY fraction of what you posted in your largely irrelevant graph.
If we happen to run out of oil coincidentally at the same as whatever non-man-made cycle that is causing the upward temperature trend ceases, then a cooling trend would be observed when we run out of oil by happenstance. From the chart you will see several instances prior to Man's existence where the earth was much hotter than it is today - including rapid temperature increases during some of these instances. So much so that people of today put forth the far-fetched Silurian hypothesis (advanced non-human ancient civilizations causing climate change, just as is conjectured that humans are doing today by climate alarmists) to explain it rather than concede that non-industrial processes can rapidly heat the earth. You will also observe from the chart, that modern man has a presence during a temperature minimum - which is to say that at no time in the temperature history of the earth has it been cooler, so that there is no where to go but to stay the same or go up. Put yet another way, we would have to break a minimum record to get cooler temperatures since we are within a few degrees of the historical minimum of the entire temperature history of earth (several hundred million years).