We have a long history of changes in the Earth’s climate. This tends to be used by climate apologists to show how the current changes are only a result of the Earth’s normal changes. However, many of the biggest changes were caused by things that were not truly the Earth’s fault. The major Ice Age that killed off the dinosaurs was caused by a massive meteor hitting the planet. Another random occurrence happened between 1650 to 1715 AD, which has been called the “Little Ice Age.”
[Image via Iurii/Shutterstock.com]This came as a result of extremely low solar activity in the Northern Hemisphere as well as cooling from volcanic aerosols. In this case, major cooling occurred. Yet four times now, the Earth has heated up heavily. Those periods are referred to as the “Greenhouse Earth.” Since then, we’ve had several periods when cooling occurred. Every time the Earth heated, a cooling stage happened. This is key because the Earth never overdid itself. There was always a balance.