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Last Time CO2 Levels Were This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Trees growing near the South Pole, sea levels 20 metres higher than now, and global temperatures 3C-4C warmer. That is the world scientists are uncovering as they look back in time to when the planet last had as much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as it does today. Using sedimentary records and plant fossils, researchers have found that temperatures near the South Pole were about 20C higher than now in the Pliocene epoch, from 5.3m to 2.6m years ago.
Many scientists use sophisticated computer models to predict the impacts of human-caused climate change, but looking back in time for real-world examples can give new insights. The Pliocene was a "proper analogy" and offered important lessons about the road ahead, said Martin Siegert, a geophysicist and climate-change scientist at Imperial College London. "The headline news is the temperatures are 3-4C higher and sea levels are 15-20 metres higher than they are today. The indication is that there is no Greenland ice sheet any more, no West Antarctic ice sheet and big chunks of East Antarctic [ice sheet] taken," he said.
So much agenda going on here. More climate stories than tech.
Satellite pictures clearly show a greener Sahara.
The Monsoon works much more efficiently when the temperature in the interior goes up higher.
Heavier rains can be handled via dams and water storage. California already does it to irrigate the Central Valley - a place which is technically a desert as it gets less than 10 cm of rain.
Where the greener solution is more efficient sure use it but the criteria has to be whats best for development not whats best for assuaging SJW egos.
The damage ( if any) from Global Warming will not hit for another 100 years but the benefits of fossil fuels are here now and using fossil fuels to quickly develop makes countries better suited to ameliorate any effects than sitting around solar panels and singing Kumbaya.
**Life is too short to be serious**
Why are you so angry?
I provide facts which contradict what you have been brainwashed into believing and you respond with insults. Thats religion not science.
The Anti CO2 movement has taken on all the trappings of a Jihad and its difficult to reason with the faithful but still here goes- the SAHARA IS TURNING GREENER
https://www.climatecentral.org...
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Okay NASA than. Dont call them Climate Change Deniers
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/g...
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