No, Earth wasn’t 2 degrees warmer 55,000 years ago, despite former oil company CEO’s claims
, a senior researcher at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University in England, told PolitiFact in an email that she knows of no reputable source that claims Earth temperatures were higher 55,000 years ago.
"It shows a solid misunderstanding of Earth’s palaeoclimate and the drivers of past temperature change," said Davies, who also runsstated on September 28, 2022 in an Instagram post A news anchor warned that if Hurricane Ian “moves 20 miles to the west … you and everyone you know are dead.”The temperature in one studied region of Antarctica was -35.6°C 55,000 years ago, according to data publishedin the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It said that in 2006, the average temperature in that area of Antarctica was -28.7°C — that was about 6.9°C warmer than the temperature in that region 55,000 years ago.
There are periods in Earth’s history in which the planet was much warmer than today, or even too hot for humans to live. For instance, 600 million to 800 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs, the global average temperature was
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