That's a strawman though. I didn't say climate can explain the whole human experience. I said there are countless causes of any social phenomenon, climate being just one of them. The point is that after the advent of modern liberalism, which made for massive progress, climate comes to the fore in explaining why some regions don't progress nearly as well.

Yes, I cited that different point about climate change in the ice age to buttress the hypothesis that climate in general can be a factor.