Neither is significant compared to the known global variations in temperature over geologic time, though any cooling still contradicts the AGW hypothesis.

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To get your head around geologic time, repeat this mantra: Stegosaurus was as far in the past for Tyrannosaurus Rex as T.

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Any interchange between the two, if it were possible, would have happened already in geologic time, measured in tens of millions of years, not in recent history.

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If we go back, we are back into geologic time.

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On a geologic time scale, the two events occurred at virtually the same moment, according to new and more precise dating results that they reported in the journal Science.

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Even if it does, it is not important because the observed warming, even the highest temperatures that can be found in the data, is well within the range of natural changes that have occurred over eons of geologic time.

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Since the beginning of the commercial revolution in the 14th century executives have built or lead their businesses in what scientists call the Holocene climatic epoch, a geologic time period that began at the end of the last ice age around 12, 000 years ago.

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Geologic history shows that over a LONG time period that sea level changes by about 65 feet (20 m) for each degree C of change in the ocean.

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