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Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is right now | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

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Soaring temperatures. Unusually hot oceans. Record high levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and record low Antarctic ice. We’re only halfway through 2023 and so many climate records are being broken.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you start a million years ago, the CO2 concentrations are way above where they've ever been. Cycles, sure, but nothing like what humans have done, nor on the time frame that humans are doing it.