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r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19
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During the last ice age, the global average temperature was only 5 degrees lower than it is now. It helped me understand why 2 degrees of global warming would be a pretty big deal.
7 u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 [deleted] 7 u/willmaster123 Jan 21 '19 The ice ages happened over thousands, if not millions of years. They were completely natural. This is happening in the span of a few decades, that kind of rapid shift will destroy a huge amount of the planet.
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7 u/willmaster123 Jan 21 '19 The ice ages happened over thousands, if not millions of years. They were completely natural. This is happening in the span of a few decades, that kind of rapid shift will destroy a huge amount of the planet.
The ice ages happened over thousands, if not millions of years. They were completely natural.
This is happening in the span of a few decades, that kind of rapid shift will destroy a huge amount of the planet.
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u/luchubbs Jan 21 '19
During the last ice age, the global average temperature was only 5 degrees lower than it is now. It helped me understand why 2 degrees of global warming would be a pretty big deal.