>>11030951The general public caught wind of it, everyone and their grandmother has a copy of Chan Thomas' History of Cataclysms: The Adam and Eve Story.
The concept of a sudden and horrible, possibly cyclic extinction event caused by rapid climate change is a narrative that is literally 10 thousand years old, at least. It's literally the story of Noah's arc, and several other stories that predate Noah's arc by thousands of years. It is one of the most prevalent science fiction premises, hellooo
Day After Tomorrow?
2012?
This shit isn't a secret.
Even PBS spacetime formally addressed the rising public concern over cataclysms, and made a comically unsubstantiated claim that it wont happen. That was like, a week ago.