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Within two centuries, we’ve taken climate trends back to 50 million years ago

“If we think about the future in terms of the past, where we are going is uncharted territory for human society. We are moving towards very dramatic changes over an extremely rapid time frame, reversing a planetary cooling trend in a matter of centuries,” says the study’s lead author, Kevin Burke, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison).