| 1000 divided by 17 ~= 59. So we're tweaking the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere 59 times faster than has happened in the last 800,000 years. If we are in a natural warming cycle, then we're amplifying it by AT LEAST 59 times its likely baseline rate. I wonder what the peak of this warming cycle will be? Probably higher than the last one . . . and in large part achieved orders of magnitude more quickly. |