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New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought
- Ancalagon 4y agoYikes more bad news. Not to mention everything we are seeing and we've barely begun the 2020's. Not looking good.
- nobodyCloak 4y agoThat’s interesting you say that because I initially had the opposite impression because this would imply that the Earth has experienced major temperature swings much beyond what we’re seeing now and life carried on. Then I reread and saw the part about increased greenhouse gas effects… I hope those calculations at least are inaccurate.
- Ancalagon 4y agoIts not just about life carrying on though. It wont carry on as usual for humans, and these findings show that we can expect a more rapid and greater increase in temperature than initially expected. This will disrupt food and water supplies, cause inhospitable deserts to grow, and displace a lot of people and animals that were once in tune with their ecosystem before the rapid changes began. Not to mention we are already halfway to more than doubling pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 levels, the nightmare scenario with 4+ degree warming of the planet seems more likely. These findings mean its going to happen even faster than we thought.