Thread by @rahmstorf, Global temperature is now hotter than any time in the Holocene

Stefan Rahmstorf

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Global temperature is now hotter than any time in the Holocene - the entire history of human civilization. #ClimateStrikeOnline #FightEveryCrisis #NetzstreikFürsKlima

A version of this graph including future scenarios was properly peer-reviewed and published in Nature Climate Change here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3013">https://www.nature.com/articles/... And covered e.g. by the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/23/this-chart-perfectly-explains-whats-at-stake-in-the-quest-to-stop-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ener...

This chart perfectly explains what’s at stake in the quest to stop climate change

Scientists argue that the Paris agreement has the right idea, because it would prevent us from tipping key unstable elements of the climate system.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3013

I& #39;m always amazed how little known these results from paleoclimate research are in the general public. As this is getting a lot of interest, here some further information. We discussed these results at Realclimate after they first came out: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/09/paleoclimate-the-end-of-the-holocene/">https://www.realclimate.org/index.php...

Paleoclimate: The End of the Holocene

Recently a group of researchers from Harvard and Oregon State University has published the first global temperature reconstruction for the last 11,000 years – that’s the whole Holocene (Marcott et...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/09/paleoclimate-the-end-of-the-holocene/

Also, we can now reproduce the ice age cycles of the entire past 3 million years in our global climate model, including ocean, atmosphere, land and marine biosphere, carbon cycle and ice sheets, driven merely by their ultimate cause, the orbital cycles: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2019/04/first-successful-model-simulation-of-the-past-3-million-years-of-climate-change/">https://www.realclimate.org/index.php...

First successful model simulation of the past 3 million years of climate change

Guest post by Matteo Willeit, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research A new study published in Science Advances shows that the main features of natural climate variability over the last 3...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2019/04/first-successful-model-simulation-of-the-past-3-million-years-of-climate-change/

A new study by Kaufman et al. was published last week featuring a comprehensive global database of Holocene
paleotemperature records: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0445-3">https://www.nature.com/articles/... Results are highly consistent with the graph that starts this thread.

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