Life has thrived on earth for at least 540 million years.
The Washington Post says earth is close to the coldest of the last 500 million years, and says this provides “a warning on the consequences of human-caused warming”
Scientists calculate Earth’s temperature changes over 485 million years – The Washington Post
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Gotta be reefs older than Ordovician?
Since at least one “Where was it Then” maps show “New England” and “England” residing as islands near 60 S, 458 Million years ago.
Since they both took a slow creep up to their current locations, how much of the “Climate Change” is just going from the bottom to the top of the globe?
It would be interesting to know the temporal resolution of the reconstruction of temperatures over the last 485 million years (from the data sets presented by the authors, at least many thousands years per data point) in order to see if comparing these data with the evolution of temperatures over the last few centuries (as done by the WaPo) makes any sense.