Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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A, I'd Like to Go Back to an Early Era in Climate Change
The first mathematical proof of this was developed by malankovitch in 19 forty one, but nobody had the ability to test it. The seminal paper on ice es i came out almost forty years ago. So we know about the last forty years, we've known the unrlying causes. What has happened in the interim is that we've understood how quickly the ice ages take and actually, ice ages take a huge amount of time to build up. Over that hundred thousand year cycle, you're looking atan perhaps 80 thousand years to get the full ice age.
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