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Were there any periods in which the rate of change in warming was the same or greater?
by acuozzo 6mo ago
Were there any periods in which the rate of change in warming was the same or greater?
- bilsbie 6mo agoI think there’s debate on the current numbers but I’ve heard sea surface temperatures are currently about 0.5°C above the 1981-2010 average.
- moffkalast 6mo agoDuring mass extinction events.
- ijustlovemath 6mo agoDuring the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, the rate of change of CO2 concentration was 1/4 what we're at today
- simonsarris 6mo agoYounger Dryas, definitely. It very likely abruptly stopped progress in human agriculture, before allowing it to abruptly restart again. Makes the Medieval warm period and little ice age look like a joke. Two massive shifts that punctuate the timeline of early human prehistory. > The Younger Dryas (YD, Greenland Stadial GS-1) was a period in Earth's geologic history that occurred circa 12,900 to 11,700 years Before Present (BP). It is primarily known for the sudden or "abrupt" cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, when the North Atlantic Ocean cooled and annual air temperatures decreased by ~3 °C (5 °F) over North America, 2–6 °C (4–11 °F) in Europe and up to 10 °C (18 °F) in Greenland, in a few decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
- thrance 6mo agohttps://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/