It is convenient that climate has both a geological and psychosocial meaning, for the climate crisis humanity faces today involves both these domains and our ultimate environment as the Numinosphere, Satchitānanda, and Le Milieu Divin, in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s terms.
The purpose of this page is to put the climate changes and extremes we have been experiencing during the past few decades into a much broader time perspective than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) normally presents the climate changes that are likely to happen during the lifetimes of the younger generations.