Jan 20, 2017
Regional and global sea-surface temperatures during the last interglaciation
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Science
- States that understanding how warm intervals affected sea level in the past is vital for projecting how human activities will affect it in the future
- Compiles estimates of sea surface temperatures during the last interglacial period, which lasted from about 129,000 to 116,000 years ago
- Finds that the global mean annual values were ∼0.5°C warmer than they were 150 years ago and indistinguishable from the 1995–2014 mean
- Conclude that this is a sobering point, because sea levels during the last interglacial period were 6 to 9 m higher than they are now