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Re:Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise by JoshTriplett on Monday October 16, 2023 @11:40PM (#37910293)
https://xkcd.com/1732/
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Re:Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise by transcriptase on Monday October 16, 2023 @11:53PM (#37910386)
And when you extend it back to 120k years before present?

Or if you don’t use a smoothed averaged-sliding-window for everything except the most recent datapoints you’re trying to draw attention to?

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Re:Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise by PheonixPharts on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:53PM (#37920652)
> And when you extend it back to 120k years before present?

If you do that you realize we're approaching temperatures that the planet hasn't seen in about 5 million years. [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

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