• binux@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    …there were asteroid impacts that did it a little more quickly.

    They mention that in the article:

    Perhaps barring the immediate aftermath of the dinosaur-obliterating asteroid impact 66 million years ago, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have never risen as quickly as they have in the last couple of centuries.