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A 50,000-Year-Old Block of Ice Paints the Most Chilling Picture of the Future Ever (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I only skimmed this article but is it trying to bring home the seriousness of and need to reverse man-made global warming by citing an entirely natural example.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Based on other comments the operative comparison is the previous worst case took 55 years to build up the level of CO2 that now only takes 5 years.