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by baron_harkonnen 1742 days ago
> much more than that at times in the last few thousand years.

When was that?

If you look at this estimate of temperature on Planet Earth[0][1] you can clearly see the last time the planet saw > +2C was the Pliocene.

Even if you look more closely at just the Holocene you don't see > +2C anywhere[2]

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/All_pala...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...