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Re:Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather by anodari on Monday August 09, 2021 @05:16AM (#28114264)
I wasn't in this conversation but I'm sure he also said that the planet is millions of years old and the climate always has its ups and downs.
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Re:Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather by mod50ack on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:32AM (#28115402)
The planet will be fine. It's a rock. It's the inhabitants who will have a problem.
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Re:Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather by d110af5ccf on Monday August 09, 2021 @05:31AM (#28114396)
Which is completely true! Antarctica was even covered by rainforest at one point! It's just the rate of change that's the issue (by many many orders of magnitude).

(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5)

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Re:Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather by Avalaxy on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:14AM (#28114753)
I always refer those people to this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1732/. It visualizes things very powerfully. Yet, I never get a response anymore after sending this to them.
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