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Saturday, September 23, 2017

Previous Interglacials and Thermal Episodes

When one looks at the temperature graphs and paleontological evidence of previous interglacial periods and compares such with our current interglacial, one can't help but notice that we should have long ago hit the higher temperatures that we could easily have expected.
http://www.ukipdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Interglacials-pattern.jpg

I consider the distinct likelihood that the comet swarm strike that kicked off the Younger Dryas Period is the cause of our lesser temperatures.
https://m.phys.org/news/2013-08-evidence-cosmic-impact-younger-dryas.html

Note: Our currently artificially unsequestering vast amounts of CO2 in a relatively short period of time is amplifying the greenhouse effect.
If we continue with this as we have been, we can eventually expect to experience the beginnings of what was experienced due to prolonged heavy volcanic activity during the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) 55 million years ago with CO2 Levels at 1500 ppm.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-earth-warmed-dramatically-after-one-two-carbon-punch-180953610/

CO2 Currently Rising Faster Than The PETM Extinction Event:
https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-rising-ten-times-faster-than-petm-extinction.html

65 million year temperature record:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png

Earth's geological temperature record:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/All_palaeotemps.svg/1000px-All_palaeotemps.svg.png