{"id":57298,"date":"2024-09-21T08:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T22:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=57298"},"modified":"2024-09-21T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T22:03:49","slug":"past-485-million-years-of-climate-data-confirm-earth-coolest-its-ever-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57298","title":{"rendered":"Past 485 Million Years of Climate Data Confirm Earth Coolest It&#8217;s Ever Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Global_Mean_Surface_Temperatures.jpg\" alt=\"Global Mean Surface Temperatures\" width=\"850\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Global_Mean_Surface_Temperatures.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Global_Mean_Surface_Temperatures-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Global_Mean_Surface_Temperatures-768x495.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life on Earth has endured climates far hotter,&#8221; WaPo article admits.<\/p>\n<p>A brand new study published Thursday in the journal Science confirms that we live in the coolest time it\u2019s ever been on Earth over the last \u201c485 million years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The findings add important context to the so-called \u201cclimate change\u201d debate plagued by alarmism and exaggeration.<\/p>\n<p>A timeline featured in the study represents \u201cthe most rigorous reconstruction of Earth\u2019s past temperatures ever produced,\u201d The Washington Post (WaPo) reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreated by combining more than 150,000 pieces of fossil evidence with state-of-the-art climate models, it shows the intimate link between carbon dioxide and global temperatures and reveals that the world was in a much warmer state for most of the history of complex animal life,\u201d the WaPo article explains.<\/p>\n<p>The study also made clear that \u201cthe conditions humans are accustomed to are quite different (cooler) from those that have dominated our planet\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife on Earth has endured climates far hotter\u201d than the one people experience today.<\/p>\n<p>The study authors showed Earth\u2019s average temperature once reached 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit, much higher than last year\u2019s 58.96 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt its hottest, the study suggests, the Earth\u2019s average temperature reached 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius) \u2014 far higher than the historic 58.96 F (14.98 C) the planet hit last year,\u201d WaPo points out.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline provided by the authors depicts how the Earth is currently in a much cooler climate compared to earlier periods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonfleetwood.substack.com\/p\/past-485-million-years-of-climate\">https:\/\/jonfleetwood.substack.com\/p\/past-485-million-years-of-climate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Life on Earth has endured climates far hotter,&#8221; WaPo article admits. A brand new study published Thursday in the journal Science confirms that we live in the coolest time it\u2019s ever been on Earth over the last \u201c485 million years.\u201d The findings add important context to the so-called \u201cclimate change\u201d debate plagued by alarmism and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Past 485 Million Years of Climate Data Confirm Earth Coolest It&#8217;s Ever Been&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57300,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57298\/revisions\/57300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}