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Re: It is not the first time in our planet's history that temperatures have been rising, but it is happening much faster now than it ever has before. Or is it?

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is not the first time in our planet's history that temperatures have 
> been rising, but it is happening much faster now than it ever has 
> before. Or is it?
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-global-fast-today.html
> 
>> Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg have
>> shown in the latest edition of the journal Nature Communications that
>> the temperature changes millions of years ago probably happened no
>> more slowly than they are happening today.
>>
>> In order to predict how today's ecosystems will react to increasing
>> temperatures over the course of global warming, palaeobiologists
>> study how climate change happened in the earth's history and what the
>> consequences were. In order to compare the events of the past with
>> current changes researchers need data on the scope of the changes.
>> What was the speed with which temperatures increased or decreased?
>> What was the magnitude of the change in temperatures? Until now, the
>> general consensus has been that current climate change is happening
>> more quickly than any previous temperature fluctuations.
>>
>> Climate change in the earth's past faster than previously thought
>>
>> Together with a British colleagues, palaeobiologist Prof. Dr.
>> Wolfgang Kie?ling and geosciences student Kilian Eichenseer, both
>> from FAU, have published a pioneering study in Nature Communications
>> explaining that the idea that environmental changes in the earth's
>> past happened slowly in comparison to current, rapid climate change
>> is wrong. The reason for this incorrect assumption is the different
>> time periods that are examined in climate research. 'Today we can
>> measure the smallest fluctuations in climate whenever they occur,'
>> Kilian Eichenseer explains. 'Yet when we look at geological history
>> we're lucky if we can determine a change in climate over a period of
>> ten thousand years.'
 
No shit?

Seems to me people have been telling you that for many years now, spammer. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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It is not the first time in our planet's history that temperatures have been rising, but it is happening much faster now than it ever has before. Or is it? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 18:16 -0600
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