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Comment Re:noooo (Score 1) 560

Because 135 is too short a time frame. If you're tracking a stock and want to see it's history would you use it's price ticks over the last 135 seconds and think that is the representative of the whole? If you follow baseball or basketball would you extrapolate the results from one game and say that is what the player will average over the year or his career? No.
Compare 135 years to 100 million years and what do you get. Put it on a year scale. Do the math and see if you think the sample means anything.

One month equals approximately 8 million years.
One week equals approximately 2 million years. (Yes there are 4.33 weeks in a mth but this exercise to help grasp the scope.)
One day equals approximately 250,000 years
One hour equals approximately 10,000 years
One minute equals approximately 160 years


So ... we have records for less than the last one minute and we're extrapolating over the past year. (And that's only using 100 million years as a basis.) We can (and should) go further back.

Comment Re:noooo (Score 0) 560

Proto-Humans have been around for what 3-5 million years? (Depending on the text)
So we know that humans are fine in global temperature and CO2 variations in that time period.
Primates have been around for 20+ million years. So that time frame is good.
Mammals have been around for 80+million years. So that time frame is good.
Proto-mammals have been around for 130+ millions years. So that time frame is good. Let's not go further back. The relationship would be less obvious.

Take a look at the temperature and C02 levels of 55 million years ago (we as a species would survive with ease as would other mammals) and compare it to now. That would be a record worth comparing to. Using the last 135 years as a comparison point is more that silly - it's being dishonest. (ie lying to people to make a point).

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