[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK...I believe this is the Hansen paper relating to this thread:

‘Beijing Jim’ Hansen: Sea Level Rise of Many Metres This Century “Almost Dead Certain”

[muawiyah]

Hmm? The piece tells me the current Interglacial started some 20,000 ybp.

At the same time I know Interglacials last about 10,000 years.

Which means we are "overdue" ~ or, perhaps we skipped from a normal interglacial to an early blooming interstadial back about 9500 years ago?

That would be due to the fact a comet busted up the residual North American ice sheet thereby unleashing an EARLIER THAN NORMAL peak warming (while at the same time trashing Europe and parts of North America in 1500 more years of ice).

With an earlier than normal peak warming, we'd still be chugging along (given ocean temperatures) with more warming than had occurred at this stage of the game in the previous 20 glaciation cycles of the present Ice Age.

We know interstadials are usually less than 10,000, so that means we may no longer be able to rely on the Vostok cores to tell us anything meaningful to our current plight.

Whatever, I really don't want people doing anything to tip us back over into a period of major glaciation!~