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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Washington Post Accidentally Admits Earth at Coolest Point in
 the Last 485 Million Years"
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 10:45:17 -0400
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Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 9/27/2024 6:59 PM, William Hyde wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> "Washington Post Accidentally Admits Earth at Coolest Point in the 
>>> Last 485 Million Years"
>>>
>>> https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/09/washington-post-accidentally- 
>>> admits-earth-at-coolest-point-in-the-last-485-million-years/ 
>>
>> The earth was four degrees C colder at the peak of the ice age 21,000 
>> years ago.   So the above is simply not true.
> ...
> 
> So the little jog down before present time does not cover the 4 C drop ?


I've no idea why you think that is a relevant question.

We are not now at the "coolest point in the last 485 million years" 
because it was 4C cooler 21,000 years ago.

What's hard to understand about that?  The claim made in your original 
post is unequivocally false.

For that matter it was also cooler about 140,000 years ago, and at each 
of the preceding glacial maxima going back 800,000 years.
> 
> If not, do you have a better graph ?

It's a wonderful graph.

But if you want to examine climate in the era in which humans are 
actually present, one with ticks considerably less than ten million 
years apart would seem more useful.

William Hyde