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View In: Hot House EarthPliocene beech fossils in Antarctica when CO2 was at similar level to today point to planet’s future

Zero Hedge News
View In: Hot House EarthDNA From 2 Million Years Ago Reveals Arctic Utopia That Was 50-65 Degrees Warmer Two-million-year old DNA from northern Greenland has pushed back the genetic record by 1 million years to a time when the Arctic region was 50-65 degrees warmer, and home to abundant wildlife - including mastodons, lemming...

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Groundwater gases from 6 continents reveal more extreme land temperatures 20,000 years ago than previously known

“The climate actually changed a lot more than people were saying during the last ice age, which means it could change a lot more in the future with warming”

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The Guardian
View In: Hot House EarthThe Devon coastline reveals that Earth was in a near-lifeless state for up to five million years after the last extinction eventBudleigh Salterton, on the south coast of Devon, sits above the most frightening cliffs on Earth. They are not particularly high. Though you don’t want to stand beneath them...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Hot House EarthThere is bad news for the planet when we consider what it means to have atmospheric carbon levels of 421 ppm.

View In: Hot House EarthPliocene beech fossils in Antarctica when CO2 was at similar level to today point to planet’s future