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Daniel Babin, PhD · @rockdocdan

Map of the US East Coast about 3 million years ago, with the ancient sea covering the coastal plain from Virginia to Georgia.

Sea level · 3 million years ago

Where the Coast Was the Last Time CO₂ Was This High

About 3 million years ago, CO₂ was about where it is today, and the ocean reached far inland. Norfolk, Charleston, Wilmington and Savannah would have been underwater.

Printable PDFLetter to poster size · 3.2 MB Image2160 × 2700 JPG · 1.0 MB

Data: Rovere et al. 2015 (CC BY 3.0); NOAA ETOPO 2022; US Census; Natural Earth

Chart of 800,000 years of CO₂ and Antarctic temperature from ice cores rising and falling together, with today's CO₂ spiking far above the record.

Climate · Ice cores

Has the climate always changed? Yes, and CO₂ turned up the heat.

Bubbles in Antarctic ice record 800,000 years of CO₂, and the ice itself records temperature. They rise and fall together. Now CO₂ has shot far above the record. What happens next?

Printable PDFLetter to poster size · 0.2 MB Image3300 × 2550 JPG · 0.7 MB

Data: Bereiter et al. 2015; Jouzel et al. 2007 (EPICA Dome C); NOAA

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Where the Coast Was the Last Time CO2 Was This High

Has the climate always changed? Yes, and CO2 turned up the heat.

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Where the Coast Was the Last Time CO₂ Was This High

Has the climate always changed? Yes, and CO₂ turned up the heat.