text: No, nighthawk is an idiot. I'm fairly certain historical records of climate would show an increase in global temperature - but then if you engage your brain for one second you'd realise thats because we'd already started to effect the environment by the time we started recording climate!\n\nTo be honest, the 10 year time window is bull. We're not really sure exactly what is going to happen or when. This isn't because scientists are idiots, its because the Earth is a complex system that has been operating for 4.5 billion years - we're still learning how it works.\n\nWhat we do know is that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has more than doubled since the industrial revolution, and that can be attributed to humans, not natural processes. I don't think we can reverse what we've done before we see more drastic effects (last years hurricane season was justa  taster).\n\nHowever, the world isn't going to flood overnight. The Earth is actually a very robust system...it will look after itself. Natural buffers in the system will give humanity time to study, learn and then mitigate the hazards of global warming.