3 million years ago, greenhouse gas was lower (at 360ppm). Temperatures were warmer, and sea levels were 20 meters higher.
Professor Gavin Foster: “The reason we don’t see #Pliocene-like temperatures and sea-levels yet today is because it takes a while for Earth’s @climate to fully equilibrate (catch up) to higher CO2 levels and, because of human emissions, CO2 levels are still climbing.”
Julia Steinberger: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-07-15/cogs-in-the-climate-machine/
@maugendre @climate Here is a follow-up four years later:
Professor Julia Steinberger wrote a geopolitical roundup: "Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it."
https://jksteinberger.medium.com/what-we-are-up-against-2290ba8c4b5c
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"We are disenfranchised people, facing governments taken over by industry actors, who welcome inequality and suffering as part of their ideology and business models. They were never going to respond to legitimate grievances, positive proposals, or democratic demands of any shape or form — on principle."
Julia Steinberger: https://jksteinberger.medium.com/what-we-are-up-against-2290ba8c4b5c poke @maugendre
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Eric Maugendre about carbon
Estelle Platini