Originally Posted by gunnut

What do you mean by fast? Geological time and human time are slightly different. We have been collecting data for 150 years. We have written records of European temperature for 1500 years. What is that to the earth? Dinosaurs roamed the earth for 150 million years. Man has only been here for 3.5 million years, if you count our distant ancestors. The last ice age was 40,000 years ago, give or take a thousand years. Even that is 30 times longer than we have records of the temperature variation of a single continent.

Scientists like to say that dinosaurs died off "suddenly." If you look at what they mean by "suddenly" you'll see that they're talking about a span of a million years. Humans, or our ancestors, made a great leap from ape like creatures that walk upright to more modern looking man like creatures with the ability to communicate in a virtual blink of an eye. When you actually look at that time frame, it's on the order of a million years. Ancient Egypt spent 2000 years to build those pyramids. When you think about it, that's 10 times longer than the US has been a republic. They spent more time on building pyramids than the time it took Europe going from the Roman Empire to the European Union.