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I don't believe anything a sea sponge tells me
The big issue here is where to set the baseline; do we set it based on temperatures in the late 1800s, when there start to be widespread records of thermometer-based temperature readings (what we've done in the past) or do we set it at an earlier time, based on when people's dumping of CO2 from burning fossil fuels had not yet caused warming.
You can argue about the quality of any given proxy, but they do generally paint a similar picture.
You're a sea sponge, aren't you? Nice try, sea sponge
We've been made. Abort. Abort.
The sponges migrated about a foot and a half.
And op's out here trying to pretend like they can write their own scientific studies!? What a buncha bs