“Climate Change Making Days Longer,” studies say, Part THREE

By Robert W. Endlich
Author’s Note: This is Part THREE of a four part post topicFigure numbers remain consecutive across the four parts of the post.

Part ONE is here.
Part TWO is here.
Part FOUR is here.
Presentation is here.

ANTARCTIC ICE
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We have geological evidence that since before the Mesozoic, at the very beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Earth was much warmer than today, and CO2 concentrations mainly due to warm sea temperatures were around 3000 Parts Per Million, (PPM), compared with the about 420 PPM today. Dr Chris Scotese, author of the Paleomap Project, says of those times, in the early Triassic, ~245 million years ago,

“Warm Temperate climates extended to the Poles.”

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