I’m not a scientist, but Emiliani started by explaining the earth has undergone at least 8 periods of extreme temperatures – both hot and cold.
Then he informs us that the “present period of amiable climate, which has already lasted 12,000 years, may soon come to an end, perhaps within the next 2,000 or 3,000 years.”
Okay.
He finishes by saying that, “if man continues his interference with climate through deforestation, urban development and pollution, we may soon be confronted with…unacceptable environmental stresses."
So, the extreme, earth-altering weather cycles from the last 400,000 years happened naturally. Now he’s warning us that they’re due to change again.
He’s not sure
how they will change, but
he warns that urban development and pollution could cause something that is due to happen naturally soon, anyway.
