Climate Scam

[guyfriday]

Just an update on this thread. 

I thought this was an odd thing for the Washington Post to have given it's very pro-Human Created Climate Change. (it was through MSN since WP has a paywall it want to be paid before it shows us the information, but I'll include the WP link for those that can go to it. 
Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now. (msn.com)
Scientists calculate Earth’s temperature changes over 485 million years - The Washington Post

 An ambitious effort to understand the Earth’s climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts and far hotter temperatures than scientists previously realized — offering a reminder of how much change the planet has already endured and a warning about the unprecedented rate of warming caused by humans.
 The timeline, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most rigorous reconstruction of Earth’s past temperatures ever produced, the authors say. Created 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.
 
At its hottest, the study suggests, the Earth’s average temperature reached 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius) — far higher than the historic 58.96 F (14.98 C) the planet hit last year.
 
The revelations about Earth’s scorching past are further reason for concern about modern climate change, said Emily Judd, a researcher at University of Arizona and the Smithsonian specializing in ancient climates and the lead author of the study. The timeline illustrates how swift and dramatic temperature shifts were associated with many of the world’s worst moments — including a mass extinction that wiped out roughly 90 percent of all species and the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs.

Before going much into the rest of the article, it should be pointed out here that they make assumptions of the science is wrong. They make a few claims that the temperature rises then there is a mass extinction, but in reality we don't have the evidence to show a complete picture and the evidence we do have shows that an event takes place that causes the mass extinction then the temperature rises. 

Ok back to the article:

At the timeline’s start, some 485 million years ago, Earth was in what is known as a hothouse climate, with no polar ice caps and average temperatures above 86 F (30 C). The oceans teemed with mollusks and arthropods, and the very first plants were just beginning to get a toehold on the land.
 
Temperatures began to slowly decline over the next 30 million years, as atmospheric carbon dioxide was pulled from the air, before plummeting into what scientists call a coldhouse state around 444 million years ago. Ice sheets spread across the poles and global temperatures dropped more than 18 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius). This rapid cooling is thought to have triggered the first of Earth’s “big five” mass extinctions — some 85 percent of marine species disappeared as sea levels fell and the chemistry of the oceans changed.

I like that statement about pulling CO2 from the atmosphere caused the cooling, yet people like Bill Gates are still trying to sell us all on the idea that removing that CO2 is needed for humans survival. Anyways back to the article. 

An even more dramatic shift occurred at the end of the Permian period, about 251 million years ago. Massive volcanic eruptions unleashed billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, causing the planet’s temperature to shoot up by about 18 F (10 C) in roughly 50,000 years. Acid rain fell across the continents; marine ecosystems collapsed as the oceans became boiling hot and depleted of oxygen.
 
“We know it to be the worst extinction in the Phanerozoic,” Tierney said. “By analogy, we should be worried about human warming because it’s so fast. We’re changing Earth’s temperature at a rate that exceeds anything we know about.”
 
The study also makes clear that the conditions humans are accustomed to are quite different from those that have dominated our planet’s history. For most of the Phanerozoic, the research suggests, average temperatures have exceeded 71.6 F (22 C), with little or no ice at the poles. Coldhouse climates — including our current one — prevailed just 13 percent of the time.

I also like how they are trying to equate human activity to that of most of Siberia erupting (while that isn't stated outright, it is what happened during that time). While not using this as a fact basis, I am posting the WIKI page for informational awareness only: Siberian Traps - Wikipedia

I didn't quote out the entire article, nor did I post the cool charts they used either, but it would be of interest to those researching this topic, as well as those who understand that this nonsense is just a scam and want talking points to educate others to this scam. 

This report originally came from Science.org 
A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature | Science
Also posted in Phys.org
Study charts how Earth's global temperature has drastically changed over the past 485 million years, driven by CO₂ (phys.org)
and the Smithsonian Magazine website
In a Landmark Study, Scientists Discover Just How Much Earth's Temperature Has Changed Over Nearly 500 Million Years | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com)