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Subject: Re: xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death
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On 8/27/2024 9:53 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On 25/08/2024 20:56, BCFD 36 wrote:
>> On 8/23/24 12:49, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> xkcd: Time Traveler Causes of Death
>>>     https://www.xkcd.com/2976/
>>>
>>> So no time travelers died of the extreme heat at 250 million years 
>>> ago when the average temperature of the Earth was over 90 F ?
> 
> Air conditioning may be needed.  Admittedly,
> if you recognise that air may be needed,
> other fatalities described can be avoided.
> I don't trust your word anyway on the past
> climate or the future.

I *think* he's talking about the Permian
Extinction event, when temperatures reached 95F.

It got nearly that bad during the Paleocene-Eocene
Thermal Maximum, which was only 56 million years ago.

pt