Living in Bomb Time — 26

More evidence is accumulating that our Climate Sensitivity models are off.

This is not good news.

500my of Climate Change

I love this graph.

It has issues because it compresses 500my of climate history into just four inches but, it’s beautiful. This graph represents one of the great scientific achievements of the twentieth century.

Think about it. In 1957/1958, when The International Geophysical Year was declared by the UN, none of this was known. A global network of standardized weather measurement stations wasn’t established until 1880.

• Which is why the Fossil Fuel Elites used their political leverage during the Trump years to have global warming measured from 1880. 1880 was the hottest year of the 19th century, by a lot.

How much has the Earth warmed up since the “preindustrial” period? — Surprisingly it’s hard to get a straightforward answer to that question.

So, in 1958 we had less than 100 years of standardized global weather measurements and NO understanding of the Earth’s paleoclimate record. In just over 60 years we have done an analysis of the Greenland Ice Cores.