Reminder: this is an "interglacial" period. A unseasonably warm chinook in the middle of winter, as a result of the Younger Dryas comet melting through the American/Atlantean ice sheet like cotton candy. Less white, more black => albedo down => temps up. It's still not warm warm like global summer, it's lukewarm. It will be over soon, as the planet returns to winter proper.
Fimbulwinter is not a myth. It already happened. It's already happening.
Interglacials usually end at around the 20,000 mark, and have never lasted more than 30,000. The current interglacial is 17,000 years old.
Anatomically modern humans are known to be at least 150,000 years old. It's been warm for about 1% of the time. It won't make it to 3%.
Don't be impressed by a 3000 year old civilization. It's nothing. The next challenge is the 30 million years of regular snow in Australia.
Tens of millions.
How do you suppose the global order is going to survive Berlin being under two miles of ice?
One year, summer simply won't arrive. It will, for the next millions of years, never get warm enough for anything to grow. Think these people are going to sit around and wait to freeze to death, to avoid stepping on anyone's toes? If they don't violently flee the bitter cold they'll eventually be crowded southward by a physical tide of solid ice.
Ice ages are geological blips. Global summer, where the Arctic is 100% ice-free, is the normal state.
Gaia holds a party. Result: humans dump paint in their own drinks and then throw it in each other's faces.
It really, really bothers me that this extremely temporary time of moderate abundance is being wasted. Fighting to signal who is the most virtuous. Seriously? You have a moment of rest and plenty - the first in the entire history of your species - and you're going to use it on soulless squabbles?
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