Rising CO2 Promoting Desert 'Greening'

[NickB79]

5. "Balance themselves out over time"

Of course they'll balance themselves out over time.

Too bad Mother Nature works with geologic timescales, while human timescales are a blink of an eye in comparison.

A million years from now, everything will have balanced itself out again. Carbon will have been re-sequestered, the global temperatures will be falling again, polar ice sheets will be reforming, and the species that survive through the current mass extinction event will be re-speciating out to fill the empty niches. However, that means jack shit for those of us looking at the next few hundred years of climate upheaval and wondering how the hell civilization is going to survive.

After all, the planet balanced itself out after an asteroid impact and ensuing catastrophic climate change swings 65 million years ago. That didn't mean much to the dinosaurs, now did it?