"at any prior time in the Holocene"
So things have been getting warmer since the end of the last Ice Age.
Will they get warmer yet as the Milankovitch cycle continues?
I wonder sometimes whether scientists or eco-warriors have ever heard of The Milankovitch Cycles.
According to the three cycles the northern Hemisphere currently should be due to return to glacial levels, ice core sediments also show that a warming spike was reached just before previous glacial epochs took hold.
Well, the problem is that this particular interglacial didn't seem particularly influenced by Milankovitch forcing, and therefore has exhibited very stable temperatures. So the only real forcing that might cause (and appears to be causing) increasing temperatures is increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
No. Milankovitch died in the Hague.