![]() There’s evidence for very icy conditions - for example, you might have heard about Snowball Earth - and there’s evidence for quite warm conditions with no ice on the planet at all. While both are just movies, they are based off of real times in our prehistoric past. If we have learned anything from 90’s nostalgia it is we have two definitive movies as a basis for this concept: Ice Age - a frozen wasteland - and The Land Before Time - a scalding hot planet where dinosaurs roamed. The long story short is that Earth’s climate changes over time. ![]() ![]() How is today’s climate situated in what we know about the past? I’ll start the discussion by contemplating the question. IF YOU KNOW WHENCE YOU CAME, THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO LIMITATIONS TO WHERE YOU CAN GO.” So without further ado: let’s learn some climate science! Large-scale, immediate changes need to be made at the individual, societal, and global level to mitigate the effects of climate change.The global warming we see today is exacerbated by amplifying feedback loops related to CO 2 concentrations CO 2 concentrations today are at abnormally high levels never seen before in Earth’s history and have nearly doubled in the past 100 years. ![]()
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