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On one hand, the climate is definitely out of whack this year, the ocean's temperature is also hitting record levels for this time of year. On the other hand,
by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
On one hand, the climate is definitely out of whack this year, the ocean's temperature is also hitting record levels for this time of year.
On the other hand, no, we don't have temperature measurements from the last 100k years to compare to so that's kinda BS. We have models. All models are wrong (some are useful).
- wkat4242 3y agoTrue, we don't have exact daily figures. We do have a lot of info to validate those models with, like ice movements.
- eklitzke 3y agoIt's kind of a weird argument to make because the last glacial period was something like 115kya to 12kya. So it's likely the case that any day in the last 10k years is hotter than all the days in the last ~100k years glacial period. I don't want to diminish the point that climate change is real, the earth is warming, and this presents a grave threat to humanity. But the 100k years thing is a bit disingenuous. One could equivalently point out that the Earth is much colder today than it has been for most of the last 500M years, which is a statement that is equally true and irrelevant.
- Turskarama 3y agoEvery time someone brings up the fact that none of these measurements are definitely accurate I feel the need to make this reminder: It is just as likely that the models are too optimistic as too pessimistic.