In a syndicated column, George Will talks about two different books he supposedly read recently on past climate changes and the major negative impacts they had on humanity. We say "supposedly" because it'd be pretty hard to read them and come to the conclusions he put forward in his column.
While he's not quite brazen enough to say it outright, the thrust of Will's piece holds that, because past changes weren't human-caused, the current changes aren't either. Will uses past changes as a way to lob rhetorical attacks on "climate Cassandras" that he inexplicably thinks are unaware that past changes of climate have occurred. Yet those who don't share Will's ideological bent are likely to take the devastation caused in the past by extreme climate conditions (including parents eating their children in 14th century Europe due to climate-induced famine) as a stark warning of the consequences of climate change.
Will's column (much like the futile efforts of Saturn eating his children) ultimately serves a purpose opposite of his intention: bringing attention to the dangers of climate change. By repeating the denier mantra that climate is always changing, Will shows that he learned nothing from his readings of the books he cites that provide two stark warnings on the human costs of a changing climate.
For a more substantial rebuttal explaining how we know current changes are human-caused, see this Climate Nexus post on DeSmogBlog.
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