Absolutely. Anyone familiar knows that Earth spends millions of years at a time in ice-ages. We live in a tiny span knows as an "interglacial period". When an ice-age ends there are enormous lakes locked in behind the ice that breach the ice and flood the temperate survival zones to the south. Nothing escapes it and there is evidence that it has wiped the slate clean many times. The Earth doesn't experience C02 runaway like Venus because we lack the thermal component of PV=nRT so we don't turn into a pressure cooker we end up with snowball Earth instead.
The earth is round, sort of, so a circular argument should be expected ...... I guessssss. And from who else Taleb naturally.
Hello, I reached out to the author(s) for clarification and brought up your post. Here is the response: "It would perhaps be more clear if we had said something like there exists reasonable arguments that the scale of behavior is large enough to have impact on the scale of the system said behavior would perturb." "Their error is to believe the statement implies "it is necessarily that case" rather than "there is a non-zero probability that it is the case" - Joseph Norman (http://jwnorman.com/) Ping: @SunTrader - No circular reasoning.
No circular logic here, go read authors response for clarity. You seem to misunderstand just about everything.
A statement like this shows that you are an idiot and have no scientific background. Please post some specifics to your absurd claim.