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To: cogitator
What would be the mean global temperature during the interglacials only?

Taking the current interglacial period as "today", the mean temperature of the four previous ones is about 1 - 1.5 degrees C warmer.

The current interglacial period is about the same length (so far) as the most previous one (starting about 140 000 years ago). The earlier ones were a lot shorter.

Again, these are based on the Voshtok Ice Core data. Once I get ahold of the Dome C data (goes back about 600 000 years) I will do a comparison.

84 posted on 02/17/2006 1:20:12 PM PST by sima_yi
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To: sima_yi
"The earlier ones were a lot shorter."

You agree then that we may be soon to freeze our butts off?

90 posted on 02/22/2006 7:42:17 PM PST by Nova
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