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A 50 Million Year Cooling Trend

Ekosj
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The Washington Post published an accidental truth. In an article about climate change, they published a graphic depicting scientists best estimates of earth’s temperature over the past 485 million years…

Two things are abundantly clear:

  1. Compared to where we are today, Earth has ALWAYS been WARMER than today… even though modern humans were nowhere to be found in the past 484.9 million years. Anthropogenic [edited] climate change? Ha!
  2. We are currently in the midst of a 50 million year cooling trend.

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Discussion (48)

  • Dr. Bastiat@drbastiat

    So I presume that The Washington Post summarized this analysis with the obvious conclusion: They are now strongly in favor of global warming. The Post suggests that we should burn more fossil fuels.

    Right?

  • kedavis@kedavis

    Anthropogenic. Common mistake.

    And let's remember, it wasn't all that long ago that the cries of alarm were over "The Coming Ice Age!"

    The "solution," however, is always the same: more government control, taxation, etc.

  • Dr. Bastiat@drbastiat
    ReplyingtoEkosj

    Dr. Bastiat (View Comment):

    So I presume that The Washington Post summarized this analysis with the obvious conclusion: They are now strongly in favor of global warming. The Post suggests that we should burn more fossil fuels.

    Right?

    Ekosj (View Comment):

    You are a hoot!

    .

    Surprisingly, I was mistaken.

    Check out the extraordinary sub-hed to this article in The Post:

    "An effort to understand Earth's past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the consequences of human-caused warming."

    So the brilliant, college-educated journalists at The Post see a 50 million year trend of continued global cooling. And they're worried about global warning.

    I wonder why nobody trusts the media anymore?

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