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sikpuppy
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| WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! |
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flysideways
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Prenj
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BoneKracker
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11,500 years is not a "long range" study of terrestrial climate change.
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pjp
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No, it isn't, which is why the change over the last ~100 yrs is so significant.
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richk449
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| Quote: | | A heat spike like this has never happened before, at least not in the last 11,300 years, said climatologist Shaun Marcott, who worked on a new study on global temperatures going back that far. |
In other news, a traffic accident as bad as the recent one on I80 has never happened before, at least not in the last two weeks. |
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mcgruff
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There seems to be a lack of understanding of how extreme the size and speed of the human-induced spike really is.
Imagine for a moment that normal climate is a bicycle. In the first part of the graph, it's being pedalled hard in a sprint. Speed increases rapidly. Then the rider takes a break, stops pedalling and starts coasting. Speed declines slowly.
Finally, right at the end, the bicycle accelerates so fast it's like someone attached a couple of jet engines and fired up the afterburners.
That's how f*cked up the climate is. It's about as normal as a fossilised giraffe in a pre-cambrian shale.
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Old School
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| Quote: | | If not for man-made influences, the Earth would be in a very cold phase right now and getting even colder, according the joint study by Oregon State University and Harvard University. |
A damn good thing we are warming the planet.
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mcgruff
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If someone feels cold, you turn the heating up a little. While technically correct, it would normally be thought excessive to 'warm them up' with a flamethrower.
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| mcgruff wrote: | | That's how f*cked up the climate is. |
We're mortal - don't worry about it.
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