There is also the little fact that even those who are considered pre- or barely literate today have more knowledge at their fingertips than did philosophers even 200-300 years ago.

Socrates dumbed down !  8)

I tried to argue about this until I was blue in the face;Blood, Moon, Movie, Collar spontaneously took me in a trip into the blue ...;and finally that Fruit Moon, according to the Maine almanac's rules coming out of the blue !!  ;D

Ah... but there's the rub.  Man's carbon emissions are responsible for "severe weather" - global "warming" is a misnomer.  It causes hotter temperatures, more severe and colder winters, earthquakes, volcanic erruptions, sun spots, droughts, floods, and male pattern baldness.

Finally ! GW doesn't mean tropical temperatures everywhere ...

I proudly tried it and … miserably failed  1/10 ! (by chance)