Today’s rate of atmospheric CO₂ increase is 10x faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years. During the largest of the natural rises, CO₂ increased by ~14 ppm in 55 years, occurring about once every 7,000 years or so. At today’s rates, that magnitude of increase takes only 5 to 6 years.

1. 2024-06-17 at 6:59 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   Today’s rate of atmospheric CO₂ increase is 10x faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years. During the largest of the natural rises, CO₂ increased by ~14 ppm in 55 years, occurring about once every 7,000 years or so. At today’s rates, that magnitude of increase takes only 5 to 6 years.
   
   

   “Studying the past teaches us how today is different. The rate of CO2 change today really is unprecedented,” said Kathleen Wendt, an assistant professor in Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences and the study’s lead author.
   
   “Our research identified the fastest rates of past natural CO2 rise ever observed, and the rate occurring today, largely driven by human emissions, is 10 times higher.”

2. 2024-06-17 at 7:08 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   
3. 2024-06-17 at 7:26 PM UTC

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   Instigator Naturally Camouflaged [the staring tame crusher]
   Are you on crack?
4. 2024-06-17 at 7:28 PM UTC

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   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole
   "Occurring about once every 7,000 years or so". They can't even keep their lies straight. Is it natural or not?
5. 2024-06-17 at 7:59 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

   Originally posted by Instigator Are you on crack?

   
   No.
6. 2024-06-17 at 8:18 PM UTC

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   Enigma African Astronaut [memorize my carmelite sway]
   OP Makes threads with longer titles than contents.
7. 2024-06-17 at 8:23 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
   Can I get some grated Parmesan with my copy/pasta please.
8. 2024-06-17 at 10:22 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   It is what it is.
9. 2024-06-18 at 1:59 AM UTC

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   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole

   Originally posted by Obbe It is what it is.

   
   No, it isn't what it is.
10. 2024-06-18 at 5:05 AM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    The concept understands its nature at all times. It understands this because it knows what it isn't, by comparing what it is to what it isn't, or what it isn't to what it is, whichever is more relevant, it determines a distinction, or divergence. The cognitive process uses divergences to generate insights, guiding the concept from a state of what it is, to a state of what it isn't, and upon reaching a state where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the state where it is, is now the state that it wasn't, and it follows that the state where it was, is now the state that it isn't. In the event that the state it is in is not the state that it wasn't, the system has experienced a variation. The variation being the difference between what the concept is, and what it wasn't. If variation is deemed significant, it too may be adjusted by the system. However, the concept must also understand where it was. The conceptual framework functions as follows: Because a variation has altered some of the knowledge the concept has acquired, it is uncertain about its exact state, however, it is certain about what it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice versa. By differentiating this from the logical sum of where it shouldn't be and where it was, it is able to determine a divergence and a variation, which is called 'awareness'