We haven't montored glacial melting for very long, hence "at a rate not monitored before"
Greenland was green around 1000 AD, not so green anymore. The world isn't turning abnormaly warm, it's just stopped being so abnormaly cold.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire







