Where we’ve been – “We don’t have a climate emergency, we have a history emergency…”  (Joanne Nova) – Discussing Climate History as evidenced by the Geologic Record as best we can reconstruct it, as well as the instrumental record and selected documented anecdotal evidence.

But reviewing the past can be deceiving, especially with only a narrow, or short-sighted view.

• If we only look back a short way and see an unbroken direction, we won’t even have the concept that the path might curve, and we run off that path whilst still believing the way lies straight ahead.
• If we view the past from only a single, narrow window, we miss the context of that past that may help us understand and more accurately interpret events as the future unfolds into the ever-changing present that surrounds us.