[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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First complete ice core record of last interglacial period shows the climate of Greenland to be significantly warmer than today

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Pontiac]

during the Eemian period 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C warmer than today.

Wow everybody must have been driving muscle cars and heavy duty pickup trucks then,

Yep; global warming is fact! Got it you bunch of deniers!

[Pontiac]

“The good news from this study is that the Greenland ice sheet is not as sensitive to temperature increases and to ice melting and running out to sea in warm climate periods like the Eemian, as we thought” explains Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and adds that the bad news is that if Greenland’s ice did not disappear during the Eemian then Antarctica must be responsible for a significant portion of the 4-8 meter rise in sea levels that we know occurred during the Eemian.

Or your facts about the 4-8 meter rise in sea level are incorrect.

[Wuli]

“First complete ice core record of last interglacial period shows the climate of Greenland to be significantly warmer than today”

The Alien copper mining operations in the Great Lakes region must have been using a lot of fossil fuel guzzling motor vehicles!!!!! LOL - Because without artificial increase of CO2 it is just not possible for it to have been that warm. /sarc

[G Larry]

Viking keggers, clear in the yellow bands....

[ClearCase_guy]

Such surface melting has occurred very rarely in the last 5,000 years, but the team observed such a melting during the summer of 2012 when they were in Greenland.

Great! Is that when they began to see the farms that used to be there during the Middle Ages? Whenever the ice melts, they always seem to find settlements from when Greenland was somewhat thriving. Nowadays its far too cold for such activity.

[pjd]

“...the bad news is that if Greenland’s ice did not disappear during the Eemian then Antarctica must be responsible for a significant portion of the 4-8 meter rise in sea levels that we know occurred during the Eemian.”

And this is bad news because...? The ice sheet in Antarctica is getting thicker. There is some melting on the perimeters, but overall, the ice mass is increasing, not decreasing.

[bagman]

Breaking News: Ice Fields Are Cold - they take a long time to warm up.

[TigersEye]

The new results show that during the Eemian period 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C warmer than today.

Best part right there. (FWIW that's about 16 degrees farenheit warmer)

[jps098]

The ice is a stack of layer upon layer of annual snow fall which never melts away, and as the layers gradually sink, the snow is compresses into ice. This gives thousands of annual ice layers that, like tree rings, can tell us about variations in past climate from year to year.

Wrong. They assume these are annual. A few warm days and refreeze will cause the same effect.

The P-38 fighters found in Greenland a few years back were under 300+ rings in the ice cores. The scientists had egg on the face when they "confirmed" 300+ annual rings only to later be hold they sat on top of aircraft landed during WW2.

[Wingy]

So if the ice sheet has never melted in the last 115,000 years, how did the Vikings find this to be a ‘Greenland’? I’m calling for more thought.

[jongaltsr]

My observations.

10 - 12 Thousand years ago civilization was just getting started.

They did not have cars back then.

They must have polluted extensively, why else would the levels be approximately the same as today’s environment?

The population of the planet was a mere (Partial) percentage of what it is today and yet the planet temperature is about the same. It just feels like it is warmer because we have to deal with so many more dunder heads then they did 12,000 years ago.

Man has little effect on temperature (globally at least). Earth is much more powerful than all the little bugs crawling around on its surface (ie - us).

[colorado tanker]

This new knowledge about past warm climates may help to clarify what is in store for us now that we are facing a global warming

Not necessarily. If you look at the Antarctic ice core data, which spans several ice ages, you see that each interglacial maximum is a little cooler than the previous max. So, the Holocene may never reach the high tempeature of the Eemian.

If the human race survives the next ice age, the long term cooling trend should be very worrying.