According to a new study, eastern Mediterranean summer temperatures were 1.5°C to 3°C “greater than the present” from about 11,000 to 7,000 years ago, when CO2 levels were approximately 265 ppm. Then the temperatures “followed a gradual decline towards present-day conditions”. “The MTWA also showed an increasing trend from 9 ka and reached a maximum of … Continue reading Paleoclimate Reconstructions Continue To Document A Much Warmer-Than-Today Holocene