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That shows levels over the last 1000 years looking exponentially on the rise but if you look over the last 600 million years the impression is very different and much of the time higher.

https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CO2_07.j...

I'm not a warming denier but framing everything to make things look bad has adverse effects too.

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The vast majority of that time had neither modern humans nor anything like our civilization, so wouldn't really be relevant though. Hell at 600 million years ago there were just the first "complex" (not individually microscopic) life forms emerging.

Also the ups and downs in temperatures happened over a far longer period of time than what we're experiencing now, giving life more time to adapt.

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