Climate change continues: The "Pre-Holocene" climate is returning

[KamaAina]

http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/climate-change-continues-the-pre-holocene-climate-is-returning/

Since then, we have been lulled into a false sense of security by the ensuing 10,000-odd years of peaceful, stable climate during the Holocene itself. This has allowed us to tame crops and livestock, and to come together to form communities, villages and, ultimately, cities.

But the calm and tranquil Holocene has now been replaced by the Anthropocene – heralding a return to a volatile and destructive climate. Truly, we have woken an angry beast from its slumber....

But after a hesitant couple of millennia of warmer conditions, the cold was back with a vengeance, turning western Asia and Europe into ice empires. This event, dubbed the Younger Dryas, derived from the collapse of the ice walls on Lake Agassiz in North America, sending freshwater flooding into the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. As a result it cut back the Gulf Stream, returning the planet to cool and dry conditions in a matter of decades, with the average Northern Hemisphere temperature plummeting by 7C.

These cold conditions lasted for about 1400 years. Then, just as rapidly, the warm and wet conditions returned, marking the beginning of the Holocene about 11,700 years ago.

[Half-Century Man]

1. I've heard these arguments a couple of times.

Seems accurate.

[KamaAina]

2. One reply on a climate change thread?

Well, two, but this doesn't count. Y'know what? After things in Ferguson and Gaza die down, it'll still be here.