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The sponge record that moved the preindustrial baseline by 80 years
A calcified sponge in the Atlantic rewrites the preindustrial baseline by decades - how much warmer is the world really and why did the ocean fail?
The sponge record that moved the preindustrial baseline by 80 years
In this episode, we lay out the data and decisions that shifted the timeline scientists use to measure global warming and what that recalibration reveals about recent extreme weather. We follow the research, measurements, and events that make the question urgent: if the baseline was wrong, how much sooner did we cross critical thresholds?
Person: Sclerosponges
Date: July 21, 2024…
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