What? That is literally the leading theory of paleontologists as to why mammals diversified so much after the K-T extinction event.

Imo the alarming thing is the loss of biodiversity and collapse of ecosystems. We are losing species at 100 times the usual rate because of our species’ activity. It isn’t just climate change, in fact I don’t think that’s even the main reason - the main one is habitat loss from deforestation and agriculture. The problem is that earth’s life support systems depend on the health of ecosystems. We’re basically performing a giant biology experiment by extinguishing uncountable species, and totally changing ecosystems into something unrecognizable (as in the California kelp forests). What that is going to do, I fear, is eat away the foundations that our whole civilization rests and depends on. But climate change isn’t even the half of it.

Big storm... its still snowing hard in St. Louis too.

That seems suspicious to me - like how we had a baby boom after WWII. Pretty insecure a take imo

For one thing, Canada and Russia are too cold to be inhabited largely. The northern 1/2 of Canada, the biggest city has 1.1k people!