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XKCD, a webcomic created by Randall Munroe, once again tackles climate change – this time in the form of a well-crafted, scrolling timeline of Earth’s average temperature from 20,000 BCE to the projected future of 2100.
The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.The comic aims to punch a hole in the common argument made by climate change deniers, essentially that “the climate has changed before.” The point made here is that Earth’s temperature has change slowly over millennia, not like the jump seen within the last 100 years.
To see for yourself, scroll through our climate history below:
