Something Surprising Happened With Temperature Since The Start Of The Holocene – New Study

Holocene cinder cone volcano on State Highway 18 near Veyo, Utah. Credit: Wilson44691 – Public Domain

We rely on climate models to predict the future, but models cannot be fully tested as climate observations rarely extend back more than 150 years. Understanding the Earth’s past climate history across a longer period gives us an invaluable opportunity to test climate models on longer timescales and reduce uncertainties in climate predictions.

In this context, changes in the average surface temperature of the Earth during the current interglacial Epoch, the Holocene (approximately the past 12,000 years), have been thoroughly debated over the past decades. 

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