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To: fruser1

Warming trend from a cold era. Still colder now than during most of history.


72 posted on 11/17/2024 1:00:13 PM PST by wgmalabama (Screw Ukraine, screw Russia, screw the west. The only thing that matters is money at this point. )
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To: wgmalabama

Yes. IIRC, only about 25% of Earth’s non-Archean history was in ice-age status. Technically, we’re in a ice age now, so warmer is “normal”.

Within an ice age are glaciations. Wooly mammoth time was not the end of an ice age but the maximum extent of the last glaciation. There have been 60 in the past 4 million years, identifiable by moraine in the geologic record.

Based on the average, we’d be about 10-15k years into a 33k year warming before it gets cold again, presuming the current ice age continues.


74 posted on 11/17/2024 2:12:03 PM PST by fruser1
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