By Andy May The “pre-industrial” according to the IPCC in a footnote on page 43 of AR6 WGI is prior to 1750 for radiative forcings and before 1850 for temperature. Both dates are within the period commonly described as the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a brutal and a miserable time forContinue reading “The Holocene Climatic Optimum and the “pre-industrial””
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Past and Present Warming – A Temporal Resolution Issue
By Renee Hannon Christian Freuer has translated this post into German here. This post examines how present global surface temperatures compare to the past 12,000 years during the Holocene interglacial. The AR6 IPCC climate assessment report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, by Working Group 1 states in their Summary for Policymakers section A.2.2: “GlobalContinue reading “Past and Present Warming – A Temporal Resolution Issue”
