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A brand new study proves that the current warming trend in the Arctic Ocean is unprecedented
in more than 44,000 years. This is a huge story because climate change deniers love
to point to the earth going through a “natural warming” period as the cause for the extreme
rises in temperature we’re seeing. They are, of course, wrong, but their ignorance
is based on the fact that there was a natural warm period - called the Holocene Thermal
Maximum ... about 5-10,000 years ago. But now - thanks to this study - we have the first
direct evidence that Arctic temperatures in the last 100 years exceeded the peak warmth
of that earlier thermal maximum despite being exposed to 9% less solar energy. And here’s
the kicker: the earth was cooling before we started to really mess with it: arctic temperatures
cooled by about 5 degrees Fahrenheit from 5,000 years ago up to about 1900, but then,
the industrial revolution kicked in - the whole planet fell in love with electricity
and all the benefits that came with it - and the car and all the benefits that came with
that - and we started churning out ridiculous amounts of CO2 emissions (or greenhouse gasses
as their also known) into the atmosphere. We ended this cooling period, and temperatures
began to rise to the ever-increasing levels they’re at today--levels that are causing
the glaciers in the arctic ocean to melt, warming the sea and creating a much more volatile
climate. This is the truth. This argument is over. It’s time for a drastic, global
lifestyle change.