WaPo features shock graph showing Earth cooling: ‘Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over last

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WaPo features shock graph showing Earth cooling: ‘Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over last 485 million years’ – ‘Reveals world was in a much warmer state for most of the history of complex animal life’ – ‘History of wild shifts & far hotter temps than scientists previously realized’
By Marc Morano
September 20, 2024
9:21 pm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/19/earth-temperature-global-warming-planet/

By Sarah Kaplan and
Simon Ducroquet

September 19, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. EDT
Excerpt: An ambitious effort to understand the Earth’s climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts and far hotter temperatures than scientists previously realized — offering a reminder of how much change the planet has already endured and a warning about the unprecedented rate of warming caused by humans.

The timeline, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most rigorous reconstruction of Earth’s past temperatures ever produced, the authors say. Created by combining more than 150,000 pieces of fossil evidence with state-of-the-art climate models, it shows the intimate link between carbon dioxide and global temperatures and reveals that the world was in a much warmer state for most of the history of complex animal life.

At its hottest, the study suggests, the Earth’s average temperature reached 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius) — far higher than the historic 58.96 F (14.98 C) the planet hit last year.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/09/20/wapo-scientists-have-captured-earths-climate-over-the-last-485-million-years-reveals-world-was-in-a-much-warmer-state-for-most-of-the-history-of-complex-animal-life-history-of/

[MeganC]

No worries. The Left will promptly blame Global Cooling on Western Civilization and their solution will be global socialism. Which is their solution to everything.

[libertybele]

But ... but .... global warming????

[Free Vulcan]

I've suspected this for years.

[GtHawk]

Aside from a handful of days that were in the nineties this summer was very mild where I am, mid seventies to mid eighties, but I still hear the hottest year ever malarkey.

[roamer_1]

Aside from a handful of days that were in the nineties this summer was very mild where I am, mid seventies to mid eighties, but I still hear the hottest year ever malarkey.

Yeah, we had it pretty good too... Came in hard and early... mid and late July were awful. High nineties for weeks. Had August been in it's normal state, the whole place would be a cinder.

But August came easy, with rain and eighties... Rain enough that everything is still green, even now.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

IMO we're definitely in a multiyear warming trend. Since 2017 or so, it has seemed noticeable warmer. I'm willing to say at least some of that is due to human actions. There's 7 billion of us on the planet, i'm sure we're affecting things somehow. Even the heat from all the engines we run has to affect the climate, even if it's tiny. So do I endorse the total takeover of the economy by the government? No, because IMO harm isn't guaranteed, and there are better ways to reduce carbon out of the atmosphere than through mitigation IMO.

[Hoodat]

Still waiting for someone to show me any evidence at all that a 0.002 percentage point rise in the amount of CO₂ in our atmosphere has caused a rise in global temperatures.  As a 'follow the science' guy, I want to see that science.

[Kamaji]

The Earth's climate SHOULD be warming; it's still coming out of an ice age and the global mean temperature is substantially below where it has historically been, as the attached graph demonstrates: