Climate alarmists hate this inconvenient fact: hundreds of temperature reconstructions show that the northern hemisphere was much warmer over much of the past 10,000 years (Holocene) than it is today.
Massive 66 temperature reconstructions
One recent study: Arctic glaciers and ice caps through the Holocene: a circumpolar synthesis of lake-based reconstructions by Laura J. Larocca and Yarrow Axford, published in the journal Climate of the Past, examined the Arctic icecap and glaciers over a large part of the Arctic:
Using a comprehensive sampling of sediment cores extracted from 66 lakes and seas, the scientists reconstructed the melting and expansion of the Arctic ice over the past 12,000 years.
What they found was that the Arctic was far warmer 6,000 years ago than it is today:
In the paper’s Figure 10d (above), the higher the curve, the smaller were the glaciers. Clearly, we see that the Arctic region’s glaciers were much smaller 6,000 years ago than today.
Many in fact disappeared altogether and so summers were warmer.
The authors write:
We find the highest percentage (>90 %) of Arctic GICs smaller than present or absent in the middle Holocene at ∼ 7–6 ka, probably reflecting more spatially ubiquitous and consistent summer warmth during this period than in the early Holocene.”
Adding:
Our review finds that in the first half of the Holocene, most of the Arctic’s small GICs became significantly reduced or melted away completely in response to summer temperatures that, on average, were only moderately warmer than today.”
HAT-TIP: Klimaschau here
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