04 Apr '19 23:17>
@metal-brain saidTwo questions related to this:
"Back in reality, we know the Pliocene was hot and CO2 was up, glaciers were gone and sea levels were high. Currently, CO2 is up, glaciers are melting and seas are rising. Where do you think we are headed here?"
CO2 was up during the Pliocene because of the same reason CO2 levels were up in the past as shown by ice core samples, they were the result of higher temps.
...[text shortened]... is seems normal to you for some strange reason. I guess I'll call it Samuel George Morton syndrome.
Has CO2 ever (in nature) gone up that high that fast?
How fast did it happen (C02 and temp increases) back then (in the Pliocene), in the absence of humans? The highest resolution data I have seen is in 10,000 year increments, which is useless for our current debate regarding rate of change. We can say, however, that C02 was high, sea levels were high, and temps were high.