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These New Temperature Graphs Pretty Much Show Earth Turning Into Hell

These are some of the most terrifying graphical representations of data you've ever seen.
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This is one of the most disturbing graphical representations of data mine eyes have ever seen. It depicts the radical increase in global temperatures that has occurred ever since human beings decided to burn oil and coal to power all their stuff and not to stop no matter what.

The graph above shows, for the first time, a comprehensive reconstruction of temps across the whole of the Holocene—11,000 years of human civilization. The work, published by scientists at the University of Oregon in the journal Science, shows that as we come to the end of the Holocene, we're heaving upwards towards a reddish hell; we are heavenbound, or at least our global average temperature is.

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This might look familiar. The graph's trajectory closely resembles that of the renowned and so-called 'Hockey Stick' graph, which describes the rapid rise in temperatures as assembled by paleoclimatologist Dr. Michael Mann.

The difference is that Mann's graph spans 1,000 years. This one spans 11,000.

It's further evidence still that this recent rise in temperature is largely a human-motivated one. This is our doing; our entire species is making these graphs. We already live in a 400 ppm world, and it's only getting worse—as the warming continues, we'll see more heat waves, drought, wildfire, and extreme weather events.

The Oregon scientists' graph reconfirms Mann's work, by the way, which is always nice because  people who don't understand science are always saying it's wrong. It's not. Unfortunately.

And, if the U of O scientists are right, it means we're on our way to this, which, well, pretty much shows earth turning into hell. We pass 3˚C (5.4˚F) and keep spiking upwards. After 2100, our climate is pretty much unrecognizable.

Onwards and upwards we go, they say. So much so that, as you can see above, your kids are going to be living off the chart.