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> the rate of change is not unprecedented. The climate changed faster coming out of the last ice age, for example Do you have a source for that?

by Oletros 11y ago

marcus_holmes 11y ago
There have been a couple of articles talking about the rapid change coming out of the ice age recently. I didn't bookmark them because who has time for that? But I'm not making this up randomly ;) Feel free to ignore the point and my comment if you feel it insufficiently supported by peer-reviewed articles. I'm sorry I'm unable to assist your learning by giving you a solid reference.
- Oletros 11y ago
  Well, as far as I know,. all the articles I have read say exactly the contrary, that the rate now is a lot faster than the one coming out from the ice age. Is because of that I ask your sources. From [0]: > As the Earth moved out of ice ages over the past million years, the global temperature rose a total of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius over about 5,000 years. In the past century alone, the temperature has climbed 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming. [0] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page3.php http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page...
  - marcus_holmes 11y ago
    well, 20 seconds googling turned this up: http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/abrupt-climate-change-during-the-last-ice-24288097 http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/abrupt-clim... Quote from the abstract: "One of the most surprising findings was that the shifts from cold stadials to the warm interstadial intervals occurred in a matter of decades, with air temperatures over Greenland rapidly warming 8 to 15°C"
    - Oletros 11y ago
      DO cycles didn't changed the Earth global mean temperature, they are regional changes.
      - marcus_holmes 11y ago
        The "global mean temperature" is a statistical construct. It doesn't actually exist as a thing that can kill animals and plants. They only get to experience actual temperatures, and are clearly able to adapt to rapid changes in actual temperatures.

> the rate of change is not unprecedented. The climate changed faster coming out of the last ice age, for example Do you have a source for that?

by Oletros 11y ago

> the rate of change is not unprecedented. The climate changed faster coming out of the last ice age, for example Do you have a source for that?

marcus_holmes 11y ago

There have been a couple of articles talking about the rapid change coming out of the ice age recently. I didn't bookmark them because who has time for that? But I'm not making this up randomly ;) Feel free to ignore the point and my comment if you feel it insufficiently supported by peer-reviewed articles. I'm sorry I'm unable to assist your learning by giving you a solid reference.

Oletros 11y ago
Well, as far as I know,. all the articles I have read say exactly the contrary, that the rate now is a lot faster than the one coming out from the ice age. Is because of that I ask your sources. From [0]: > As the Earth moved out of ice ages over the past million years, the global temperature rose a total of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius over about 5,000 years. In the past century alone, the temperature has climbed 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming. [0] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page3.php http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page...
- marcus_holmes 11y ago
  well, 20 seconds googling turned this up: http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/abrupt-climate-change-during-the-last-ice-24288097 http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/abrupt-clim... Quote from the abstract: "One of the most surprising findings was that the shifts from cold stadials to the warm interstadial intervals occurred in a matter of decades, with air temperatures over Greenland rapidly warming 8 to 15°C"
  - Oletros 11y ago
    DO cycles didn't changed the Earth global mean temperature, they are regional changes.
    - marcus_holmes 11y ago
      The "global mean temperature" is a statistical construct. It doesn't actually exist as a thing that can kill animals and plants. They only get to experience actual temperatures, and are clearly able to adapt to rapid changes in actual temperatures.