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A lot of my climatologist and meteorologist friends have been posting links to a recent cartoon from XKCD.com showing a loooooong timeline of global temperature compared to the development of civilization that puts the recent increases in global temperature into context. IFLScience.com has posted the timeline along with a little explanation of what it shows. You can see it by clicking here.