The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

  • Pons_Aelius
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    11 year ago

    Punctuated equilibrium.

    Stable state despite gradual change in underlying conditions.

    50% increase in atmospheric co2 the last 150 years with little relative change in temps

    Then rapid change to new stable state.

    We may have arrived here…