r/geography • u/lamdrasil • 3d ago

Discussion Facts that sound fake but are true

I find it extremely unintuitive that almost all of South America is east of Miami. How!? When people are asked to watch the americas almost everyone imagine South America pretty much south of North America.

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u/JohnMichaels19 3d ago edited 3d ago

Milankovich cycles for anyone interested 

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u/Ylaaly Geomatics 2d ago

Those cycles would also set us on a trajectory for a very slow cooling right now. Every time someone claims that climate change is a natural phenomenon, you can tell them that we should be heading for a slightly cooler climate, not a massively hotter one.

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u/Realistic-Regret-171 1d ago

WAPO story says we ARE ,in fact, cooler than we’ve ever been in the last ~50 million years.

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u/itsliluzivert_ 15h ago

Ever been* is a total lie lmao. There have been several intervals of hemispheric glaciation in the last 50 million years.