I abstain from conclusions reaching far corners of the observable Universe, as too many folks in (naturally far left-leaning) academia tend to. During the last month alone, divergence of Venus' geological history from ours increased drastically (so long and thanks for all the ghoulish stories of runaway warming identical to our evil twin's, the mechanism is surely different), while timeline of the looming collapse of all plants with C3 or C4 photosynthesis stretched at least 3-fold, thus blessing us with food for thought throughout the additional billion years.

Not the worst gifts for New Year’s Eve. All in all, it's quite hard to predict future confidently, even harder to retrofit the past so it could be plugged into these predictions. ;)

Speaking again about Palisade fires which I took as a fresh example of calamities that are pretty enticing for attribution to the global warming as a sole cause (though the climate change actually increases precipitation), prescribed burning may be the answer to calque from Native Americans’ practices well predating colonization, and so on. The current dry spell there, excluding the last two years of frequent rains, is among the worst in recent times, and yet, our era could be considered relatively “wet” when checked against 3,500 year history of paleoclimate. In the greater scheme of things, inevitable remake of the Great Cascadia earthquake will inflict much greater damage than all such fires and global warming of the recent times combined. The essay in link must be made recommended reading for all inhabitants of your NW Pacific coast; my second cousin who now is living in LA predictably skipped it, though. (Today, another interesting short story would be relevant, written in 1980s, i.e., well before the onset of the current drought.)

This, too, arose from retrofitting into the hole formed in place of strangely absent data from the past. No need to even fire into the hole. (Looking backward on us today from the future, the biggest pain in the historian’s neck will probably turn out to be our fad to write in the sand, i.e., in silico, which at some moment will highly likely cause the Dark Age similar to gaps we have from the Late Bronze Age, Mayan Late Postclassic period, or another times and places, when, so to say, operating systems were found to be mutually uncompatible.)

I also recall how in South Korea, the popular, albeit informal, motto, about using China as economical support pillar and the US as a defense one, is formulated in Hanmun (classical written Chinese language, as it called in Korea), which many educated Koreans even today freely master. Such a concise tool of communicating with external powers had been codified, roughly, with the founding of the Han dynasty in China, near the end of the 3rd century BC.

Too often, part of the slope of the logistic curve is being mistaken for an exponent. It's pretty possible that our times (since approx. 1900s) will be studied in the future as the time of the Great Quickening or something alike, never again to be surpassed in terms of mind-boggling speed of qualitative changes. After that, only clock of the Long Now is ticking,

and sometimes in summer, Antarctica pack ice exceeds 1979 historical levels by ca. 20%, despite earlier vociferous sermons about its "second-lowest" extent in history.

But yes, there’ll come a time when we will be forced to counteract global warming instigated by our tip-RGB day lantern. Good news is that, according to relatively recent study, a shift of only 0.15 to 0.30 a.u. outward will be sufficient. (◠﹏◠)