An iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the arctic circle. | John McConnico/AP
Climate campaigners on Thursday pointed to a study showing that Earth is hotter than it’s ever been during the entire epoch of human civilization as the latest proof of the need to treat human-caused global heating like the dire emergency that it is.
On Wednesday, the peer-reviewed scientific journal
Nature published a report revealing that an analysis of ocean surface temperatures found that the planet is hotter now than at any other time in the past 12,000 years and that it may actually be warmer than at any point during the last 125,000 years.
The Long-Standing Mystery of Climate Change Resolved
Written by AZoCleantechJan 28 2021
According to a study under the guidance of Rutgers University, the main mystery behind climate change has been resolved by the researchers, which shows that the current yearly global temperature is the warmest of the last 10,000 years in contrast to recent research.
Rutgers scientists aboard the JOIDES Resolution on IODP Expedition 363 in 2016, including (left to right) Gregory Mountain, Tali Babila, Samantha Bova, and Yair Rosenthal. Image Credit: IODP-JRSO.
The study has been published in the journal
Nature.
The long-term mystery is known as the “Holocene temperature conundrum,” with few skeptics claiming that climate model forecasts of future warming must be incorrect. The researchers add that their results will contradict the long-held opinions on the temperature history in the Holocene era, which started around 12,000 years ago.
The long-standing mystery is called the “Holocene temperature conundrum,” with some skeptics contending that climate model predictions of future warming must be wrong. The scientists say their findings will challenge long-held views on the temperature history in the Holocene era, which began about 12,000 years ago.
“Our reconstruction shows that the first half of the Holocene was colder than in industrial times due to the cooling effects of remnant ice sheets from the previous glacial period – contrary to previous reconstructions of global temperatures,” said lead author Samantha Bova, a postdoctoral researcher associate in the lab of co-author Yair Rosenthal, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. “The late Holocene warming was indeed caused by the increase in greenhouse gases, as predicted by climate models, and that eliminates any doubts abou