Don’t pay much attention to the creationists, I have personally never met one, and suspect they don’t exist in large numbers.

Surveys are also fairly consistent in their estimates of how many Americans believe in evolution or creationism. Approximately 40%-50% of the public accepts a biblical creationist account of the origins of life, while comparable numbers accept the idea that humans evolved over time.

It’s from 2005, but there hasn’t exactly been a mass exodus from magical thinking to rationality in the last 5 years.

Don’t pay much attention to the creationists, I have personally never met one, and suspect they don’t exist in large numbers.

WTF? You are wrong wrong wrong about that!
Ever been to, say, Oklahoma?

An ice age of course tends to wipe out most vegetation, especially those that end up under glaciers. When trees first evolved, my memory fails me, 400 million years ago IIRC, the lignin was resistant to bacterial degradation, and some scientists say that they played a big role in reducing CO2 levels from several thousand ppm to levels sufficient to facilitate an ice age.

Bacteria of course have since learned to deal with trees lignin, but with a higher albedo than cropland, some suspect the LIA may have been induced by deforestation to plant crops.

With reforestation in the NH over the last 60 years, perhaps some of the warming is due to trees.

Don’t pay much attention to the creationists, I have personally never met one, and suspect they don’t exist in large numbers. Most Christians were fine with Darwinism in the 19th century, and the Catholic Church has never literally interpreted the bible, and supported science to better understand the scriptures. Of course, they insisted on proof, and any unproven hypothesis, such as Galileos heliocentric views were met with skepticism. But new views in science even today meet with skepticism, thats science.