[polemic]

There is an awful lot of human suffering on the scale between current earth conditions, and "venus", which you seem oddly focused on. Venus is a wildly different environment to Earth, several hundreds of degrees hotter. The people you incorrectly called "climate alarmists" are scientists talking about conservative estimates of single-digit degree warming over a century. Smell test based on intuition don't really cut it.

It's also worth acknowledging that Earth has had very different climates in the past. Sure, we can celebrate the fact that our sparse nomadic ancestors survived and adapted through gradual environmental change. That tells us almost nothing about the ability of our globe spanning, voraciously energy hungry, WMD-wielding civiliation's ability to do the same of much, much shorter time frames.

I don't quite understand the "well Earth will be fine" form of denialism. Sure, Earth would survive a total nuclear war over geological timeframes too. That doesn't really mean anything to humans as an advanced society that plans to stick around for more than a few hundred years.

[abootstrapper]

“The earth will be fine” is our generation’s “let them eat cake.”