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billforyesterday at 8:45 PM6 repliesview on HN

If you go back a few million, that's also climate. We're still in an ice age. https://www.climate.gov/media/16817


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crowbahryesterday at 10:41 PM

And human civilization entirely sprung up during it, all of our nations, our cities, our pastures, our lives are built on the ice age. We need to start cooling the world down and we're doing the opposite

altcognitoyesterday at 9:01 PM

Longer periods can be called paleoclimate. As you may have noticed, most types of humans did not exist in previous climates, and we are unfamiliar with the conditions of those time periods, much less if we were to bring them upon ourselves in a period of time that isn't even capable of being shown on the chart you've chosen to use.

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tardedmemeyesterday at 10:48 PM

Apparently humans can't survive outside of an ice age, then. Maybe we shouldn't end it prematurely.

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biophysboyyesterday at 9:36 PM

A better time range would be the average species lifespan of the plants and animals we eat. Too short a range highlights noise; too long a range highlights unrelated data.

shiandowyesterday at 9:18 PM

Okay? Let's keep it that way then I suppose.

b112yesterday at 9:00 PM

I'd trust such data a lot more, from any other source.

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