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That's some fun conflation right there! The ice age ended over 11,500 years ago... this sponge is 300 years ago. The study focuses on industrialization's impact
by neom 3y ago
That's some fun conflation right there! The ice age ended over 11,500 years ago... this sponge is 300 years ago. The study focuses on industrialization's impact on the climate.
- lainga 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
- neom 3y agoMy mistake. Nevertheless, still certainly a conflation of information.
- verisimi 3y agoYou conflated the information!
- BytesAndGears 3y agoNot sure that really refutes the point, since the temperature was down by about 0.25 degrees during that little ice age, according to the graph at the top of your link. after that little blip down it absolutely shot up. Little Ice Age barely had an affect on that graph, relatively
- mbostleman 3y agoAside from the correlation of the sponges' state changes and industrialization being in the same general time period, is there a causal link in the study? This is the part I struggle with when I think of the massive temperature and sea level changes on a geologic time scale. The numbers that the current climate concern are dealing with (temp, sea level rise, etc.) are so tiny. How are the models controlled from the variables in the otherwise seemingly chaotic, wild swings in the lifetime of the planet? It's amazing to me that we can zoom in and make such high resolution determinations like that. I wish, as a laymen, someone could explain how we do it.