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Anything between 5 and 10 degrees average rise will kill all life on earth.

• blueflow 4y ago
  85% of the prehistoric time earth was like that, its called greenhouse earth or acyrogenic climate. Dinosaurs lived when it was around 10 degrees hotter, and they did not die from that. Right now we are living in a icehouse earth where polar caps are a thing, which is not the case in a greenhouse climate.
  • infinite8s 4y ago
    However you are forgetting about continental drift. 100M - 200M years ago there was much more land concentrated at the poles (where the climate would have been more amenable to life) - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/what-did-the-continents-look-like-millions-of-years-ago/279892/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/what-...
    • blueflow 4y ago
      And nowadays we got Eurasia and North America lined around the North Pole.