John Wheeler: Past natural climate change raises concern about future climate change

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John Wheeler: Past natural climate change raises concern about future climate change

FARGO — The climate of our planet has been anything but static. One particular period of climate upheaval occurred during the late Triassic Period, around 234 million years ago, in an event known as the Carnian Pluvial Episode. The records of geological strata and fossils indicate a relatively sudden and dramatic change from a warm and arid world to a tropical and humid climate with frequent torrential rainfall in a world filled with swamps, fer…