Would our ancestors of 8,000 years ago be worried about global warming?

Question

Since our ancestors lived during the last major glaciation, do you think they were worried about the climate warming. They lived when glaciers were thousands of feet high. Think of the terror they felt when those glaciers starting melting from North America. I wonder if maybe one of the cave men, probably named "Al Goreyouwithmyclub" gave little skits about them all dying due to the glaciers crushing them or washing them away with the melt water? My guess, the other cave men awarded him the "No Bull Mastodon Award".

Here is a website which explains the last Ice Age in case you want to research your answer before posting.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/

Answer 1

I read that article 3 times,and there was no mention of early man even being aware that they were in an "Ice Age".  It was 'modern scientists' that discovered the "Theory of the Ice Age" by studying the data that was collected.  All of Science is built on THEORIES!  The only fraud and hoax going on here is the feeble minded attempts to continue to confuse the debate with such wild claims, such as yours,that early man must have been aware that the glaciers were melting.  The rate of melting,even the rapid melting we see today,takes a lifetime to simply casually even notice. Back then,the melting took hundreds of years.  Your 'claim' isn't even an hypothesis,it's a 'myth' or a 'fantasy of your imagination'.

Answer 2

Yes they probably would be.  Most people are and I think our ancestors would be the most worried since they lived when it was so cool, but if you think about it they polluted too.

Answer 3

not at all - but, 2 billion of them didn't live on the coast

Answer 4

I doubt it, but I wasn't around 8,000 years ago. People generally don't like change, so maybe they would be worried. In the 70's people were worried about the Earth getting colder, now we are worried about it getting warmer.

Answer 5

HA HA HA... "No Bull Mastodon Award."  Probably more prestigious now than the "Noble Peace Prize."  Such a scam.  If Al Gore and the IPCC had actually saved the world from danger, then they would EARN a prize.  Hey, maybe we should just give the Super Bowl trophy to the New England Patriots, they've pretty much won already haven't they?  Come on people, awards are for truly great success, not a power point presentation.  At least let us wait to see if Al's brilliant master plan will work before we shower him with glory.

Answer 6

LOL As a geologist, I am all too aware of the extreme cold that enveloped N. America and Europe a very short time ago in a geologic time.  It is funny how some people worry about glaciers melting and act like warming is necessarily a bad thing.  The world was a very hard place to live 10,000 B.C.  and we should be glad that we are living in relatively warm times.  It is still colder than most of earth's history, but we are lucky those glaciers melted and continue to do so.

I get a kick out of ol' Bob fretting over rising sea levels.  If you can't move a few inches in a hundred years, you got  far worse problems than anything global warming could affect.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

During the Neolithic, humans didn’t need to worry about the massive infrastructure, or the extensive agriculture systems that’s required to support 6.5 billion people inhabiting the planet today.  Back then there were just a few hundred thousand humans roaming the planet that could easily just pick up and move to higher ground or a land more suitable to habitation.  We don't have the same luxuries as our hunter gatherer ancestors.

Answer 9

Nope.

They could just fold up their tents and move.

We can't do that.  Moving people away from coasts, replacing things lost to flooding, and repairing agriculture will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, likely causing an economic depression.

Desperate poor people fleeing across national borders will likely start wars.  There's a reason the IPCC and Gore got the Nobel Peace Prize.

Answer 10

Interesting perspective, but I think any radical change in nature/weather causes concern.  It's how people define what's radical....

Answer 11

I think they would be more worried about a place to sleep and food