Whenever the science of Climate Change is discussed the following graphs of the history of temperature should be kept in mind.

First, some deep history.

Also with CO2 in the picture.

Okay, okay. Humans have only been around for 3 million years or so. Maybe they would not have survived in the age of the dinosaurs – aside from being eaten – let alone 500 million years ago. So how about more recent times.

Specifically, what have we had to deal with since we started building civilisations?

We’re colder now than at any time in the last 8000 years.

So what are we dealing with today?

Warming from 1979 to 2019. Source: NASA. Click on the image to enlarge it.

Currently temperatures are rising much more quickly in the winter and at night. Winters are warming at twice the rate of summers and, as a result, the climate is milder now than in the late 19th century. In the same way, nights are warming faster than days, again making the climate milder. Finally, temperatures in the Arctic are rising much more quickly than in the rest of the world, including the Antarctic…. The equatorial region shows minimal warming, the Southern Hemisphere shows almost no warming, with some areas actually cooling, and the Arctic and Eastern Europe have warmed quite a lot.