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The earth did have warm periods before. it appears to be part of an mini-interglacial period which happens every few hundred years. We had the Medieval Warm Per
by irthomasthomas 8mo ago
The earth did have warm periods before. it appears to be part of an mini-interglacial period which happens every few hundred years. We had the Medieval Warm Period, the Roman WP and Bronze age warm period. There is a vast body pf evidence in particular for the MWP showing that life on earth got better as the deserts retreated.
- circuit10 8mo agoThis is a nice graph that makes the problem pretty obvious: https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/
- irthomasthomas 8mo agoI accept radiative physics. I question whether we have correctly quantified the system's natural noise floor, and whether adaptation might outperform mitigation for human flourishing.