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by nec4b 851 days ago
>> but the constant stream of record breaking abnormal weather

How do you even know what is normal weather? Can you specify an exact time when you think the weather was normal?

>> Do others here feel similarly?

No.

>> Do you think these trends are reversible?

Reversible to what? Like it was 50 years ago or 5000 years ago or 50 million years ago?

>> Is technology the solution? Something else?

People have been living anywhere from freezing arctic to hot arid deserts. We seem to be good at adapting to our environment.

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To last cca 10000 years, when there was exceptionally stable climate that allowed for reliable agriculture.

Sure, humans can survive without agriculture but not billions of them.

The earth is getting greener and you think we won't have agriculture anymore. In the last 10000 years climate varied a lot, from little ice ages to warm periods. Can you be more specific about the time and also how are you going to hold climate steady, since obvious it varies a lot naturally?
To feed billions "more greenery" is not sufficient, you need reliable and predictable weather. Just one or two years of world-widespread crop failures can cause mass famine. Even if on average "it's getting greener". The temperature during last 10k years varied still much less than long periods before and we're now already outside that band. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

You are probably mixing weather and climate, but none of them has ever been predictable with or without human input. I don't think your graph is saying what you want it to say. Crop failure is a fact of farming and on average is getting less and less common, otherwise the earth would not be getting greener.
Death Valley recently got greener thanks to occasional flash floods. So you say it will be america's breadbasket? Not with such extreme weather. And as temperature gets up, weather extremes will too.
I do hope you differentiate between greener on average for the whole planet and a local phenomenon. The Earth had the richest flora and fauna when it was the warmest. Why would I believe your scary speculations instead of proven scientific data?