Climate Brief has this graph from Climate Town:
That's quite startling, to say the least; it's downright frightening, to say the most.
I don't know exactly where the blue line is at the "present"-- maybe 0.03°C? So we've warmed about 50 times faster than the worst extinction event in Earth's history, the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction which ended about 90% of species on Earth.
...the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history. About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land less than a third of the large animal species made it. Nearly all the trees died.
Trump is probably too stupid to understand this. But I really don't think he would care if he did. Not one bit.
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