You could also post relevant facts, like stuff that happened more recently than 55 million years ago, when there were no humans, not even apes or monkeys.
I feel like this is a really old, easily debunked argument. Rapid change toward a much warmer climate is likely to kick off a very abrupt extinction event. Which, incidentally, has already begun.
The point of this argument is that humans as a species are not going to go extinct (we have thumbs!) and life on Earth existed for millions of years at far hotter temperatures than even the worst-case warming scenario.
None of this makes climate change a good thing, but it's a useful corrective to headlines that suggest we're entering some kind of uncharted territory for the planet. The planet can take a lot more than we're dishing out, even if individual species can't.
I feel like this is a really old, easily debunked argument. Rapid change toward a much warmer climate is likely to kick off a very abrupt extinction event. Which, incidentally, has already begun.