Hasn't the climate changed before?

TILclimate by MIT Climate Project

Mar 6, 202500:15:15Science & Medicine

The Earth has gone through massive climate change before—many times over, in fact!—but human civilization has not. Prof. David McGee, a specialist in the study of ancient climates, joins the show to explain what came bef...

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