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Pretty sure all of these "ever recorded" records for global temps are only since 1979.
> Our planet’s seas have been warming for decades. The most recent decade has been the sea surface’s hottest since at least the 1800s.
And for the majority of that time, it has been MUCH hotter.
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I'm downvoting you for two reasons: a) preemptively complaining about downvotes, b) calling an existentially threatening development with endless significant evidence and broad scientific consensus a "creed". If you know an anecdote says nothing about a large scale development, why mention it at all?
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And we are still building fires in the wood burning stove to keep warm in Northern California. Mid-July.
So we'll just all become #VanLife nomads and everything will be fine.
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> Our planet’s seas have been warming for decades. The most recent decade has been the sea surface’s hottest since at least the 1800s.
Over the last 500M years, the world has been hotter than it is today for ~400M of those years: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte... And for the majority of that time, it has been MUCH hotter.
My question is: How is it possible the planet can be billions of years old, then all of a sudden we discover fossil fuels in the past few hundreds years and start extracting and burning them at incredible rates, releasing them into the atmosphere.
Isn't it safe to assume there would be a basic cause-effect relationship here with /some/ kind of consequence? It just strikes me as a "no free lunch" scenario - I don't fundamentally understand how you could all of a sudden start burning all of this stuff and argue against there being negative effects for the overall atmosphere, ecosystem, etc.
Can someone help me understand how/why this wouldn't be the case?
I'd like to say politics could be avoided on this but not knowing anything about the science, historical stats, etc I've always had a simple nagging question on this issue that hopefully someone can help me understand. Elementary school science classes teach basic cause and effect. My question is: How is it possible the planet can be billions of years old, then all of a sudden we discover fossil fuels in the past few…
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I'm downvoting you for two reasons: a) preemptively complaining about downvotes, b) calling an existentially threatening development with endless significant evidence and broad scientific consensus a "creed". If you know an anecdote says nothing about a large scale development, why mention it at all?
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> Our planet’s seas have been warming for decades. The most recent decade has been the sea surface’s hottest since at least the 1800s.
Over the last 500M years, the world has been hotter than it is today for ~400M of those years: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte... And for the majority of that time, it has been MUCH hotter.
Good thing humans only evolved after the climate became more hospitable.
Spoiler: El Niño and climate change. Don't feed the clickbait titles.