Re: "Washington Post Accidentally Admits Earth at Coolest Point in the Last 485 Million Years"

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:10:08 +0000, quadibloc wrote:

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:32:24 +0000, Cryptoengineer wrote:
 

15,000 years ago, my location was under 2 miles of ice. This is NOT the
'coolest time in 485 million years. Just looking at the chart,
you can see an uptick at the very end. That uptick includes the
totality of human civilization.
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Yes, we're in an interglacial, and Earth has been warmer for most of
the past. That's irrelevant.
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Our culture, and the sources of our food, are all tuned to the climate
of the past 15,000 years. Human activity is warming the planet
EXTREMELY rapidly, compared to earlier warmings. The speed is such that
plants and animals can't evolve and adapt.
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10,000 years ago, the Sahara desert was green, similar to the Great
Plains. Warming since then has turned it into a wasteland.
We're on track to do that to our main food-growing areas in the next
100 years.
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Its imperative that we do what we can to nail the global thermostat to
present  temperatures.

 
Thank you for reminding us of the facts.
 
A typographical error in the pages of the Washington Post does not
change those facts in any way.
 
I mean, what if some computer hacker caused the Washington Post to run a
story on its front page saying the Earth was flat? Would that prove the
round Earth was a hoax? Obviously not.

I spent some time studying the Post article and the associated
Science articles and decided that the research it cited was a technical
tour de force but had no bearing on the standard model of
contemporary climate change which says that human-caused additions
of CO2 to the atmosphere are driving up the temperature to where
it will be dangerous to humanity if unchecked. So the Post story
looks like a case of opportunism by journalists to snag researchers
who have made a splash with other scientists and induce them to
aid the preaching of journalism on the topic. So I left the
following comment to the Post article:

    You might want to go and soak your head after reading this
    alarmist article. I wonder to what extent its writers, in
    order to get dramatic quotes from the researchers, goosed
    them with leading questions. At any rate, a more measured
    analysis of the research that is intended for a scientifically
    literate audience is here:

    https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads1526