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Direct image link for those who can’t see it well: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/earth_temperature_timeline.png
It’s been nice knowing you guys. If we get through this I hope the scientist say to every one of the nay stays I told you so!. they should write it on 100ft high obelisk in marble and granite.
This is from 2016. Randall should do a new one. I wonder how bad it is now…
Likely exactly the same, considering a seven year difference would be barely noticeable on it.
We were discussing similar in 1998, ‘warmest year for a millenia’, detail has improved but implication already clear then. Quarter century later, curves start to bend, still trying. Plan how your life can help, don’t panic then burn out.
Reaching all those low-IQ climate deniers that read xkcd should really help.
This timeline starts at about the coldest point in the last 66 million years. Definitely not biased.
I don’t see how this is biased. Showing that the Earth did warm up over time before major human climate change started would be, very weakly, supporting that climate change isn’t real. If they wanted to be biased they would start at a warm point, and when the Earth is cooling down they’d be like “see! Earth cools naturally, so it must get warm because of climate change!”
To make my stance crystal clear, I believe in and am deeply concerned by climate change
What conclusion would change if the graph started at an earlier, warmer period?
As far as I know, three crucial things would still hold true: