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How does this stack up against other periods when the earth was considerably warmer than the Little Ice Age period that we are moving out of now? Have we gone
by douche 11y ago
How does this stack up against other periods when the earth was considerably warmer than the Little Ice Age period that we are moving out of now? Have we gone beyond the levels of the Medieval Warm Period, or say the Jurassic period?
- stillsut 11y agoRoughly equal to Medieval Warm Period in terms of global mean temperature. Areas the size of Europe (~3% of the total area) might show significant differences between then and now in average yearly temperature, with the global average being equal. The most important comparison to compare Earth's current temperature to is called the 'Holocene Optimium' which is the current high point (10kya) in the glacial/inter-glacial cycle. It's thought to have been 0.5C-2.0C warmer than today.