Have you any idea what the temp is in Paris atm? My mate says it's boiling over there in the '30s. They've had to leave all the parks open, closed schools and the top of the Eiffel Tower. Closed a nuke power station cos the river used to cool it was so hot. High 30s in the south of France.
In Spain it's up to 46C, that's like Delhi before monsoon comes. Wild fires in Turkey. And the heat bubble in western Europe is moving eastwards with Germany and Czech about to be hit.
When I was on the Gilets Jaunes protests in Paris before Covid, it was 19C in Feb and we were walking on the marches in tee-shirts. And as someone who lived off and on in Paris between '93 and '05, this really wasn't normal.
And I don't know about the middle ages, but in the early modern period and after, between 1607 and 1814, the Thames froze over for ice fairs seven times. In the winter of 1962-63, the Thames estuary was frozen in Herne Bay near us in Margate. You could walk out over the sea for a mile and more, by all accounts.
All the feedback loops that were predicted when I started studying this in the '90s {reading James Lovelock and the like} are coming to pass - the melting ice gaps raising temps so the forests {Amazon, Siberia, Canada etc} burn releasing more CO2 , causing the tundra permafrost in Canada and Siberia to melt, releasing CO2 and methane, all of which have happened. The next result will be the release of methane where the sub-sea oceanic plates meet - which we are starting to see - releasing loads more methane.
The last time that happened was the final part of a 6C rise that saw the Permian mass extinction 252m years ago, which saw 90% of marine species and 70% of land vertebrates go extinct.
It's all coming to pass. We live in the age of Kali Yug and we're all gonna be wiped out. I hope the cats take over.
We have 1bn years before the sun expands and boils off all the oceans. But that's more than enough time for intelligent life to evolve again - after all, the dinosaurs only went 65m years ago.
Here were those changes predicted in a 2007 book called Six Degrees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_De...lanet#Contents
Have a gander and see what was predicted and compare with what we've been seeing happen in the last decade or so.