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EX500rider

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8. Modern climate change is certainly to be blamed on human activity
Mon May 2, 2022, 05:25 PM
May 2022

But I wouldn't say "always"

The Black Sea was formed less than 8,000 years ago as sea levels rose over a hundred meters in a few years, I doubt that was human caused.

There have been at least five major ice ages in Earth's history. During the Cryogenian period glacial ice sheets reached the equator.

The Mini-Ice Age roughly spanned the era from 1200 to 1850, when countries in the Northern Hemisphere particularly experienced exceptionally cold winters. The River Thames often froze, from 1607 to 1814 there were frost fairs, and in the winter of 1780 New York Harbour froze, allowing people to walk from Manhattan to Staten Island.

The cause of the cold is not certain, but one likely hypothesis is that it was related to a reduction in flow of the Gulf Stream by up to 10 per cent
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The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa caused a volcanic winter. In the year following the eruption, average Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures fell by 0.4 °C (0.72 °F). The record rainfall that hit Southern California during the water year from July 1883 to June 1884 – Los Angeles received 970 millimetres (38.18 in) and San Diego 660 millimetres (25.97 in)

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