New Temperature record confirms - Last century's warming fastest in 11000 years

[greenman3610]

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In an enormous leap forward, new analysis of temperature records for the last 11000 years have now been published.

The older temperature graphs took in only the past 1000 or 2000 years, and were recognizable for the pronounced upward swing at the end. The new, longer graphs include a hump that peaked 9500 years ago, when the planet's axial tilt was most extreme toward the sun, and have declined slowy until the past century, where we see a dramatic spike.

Less like a Hockey stick, said one scientist. More like a Ski Jump. With a brick wall at the end.

http://climatecrocks.com/2013/03/08/from-hockey-stick-to-ski-jump/

from AP:

Research released Thursday in the journal Science uses fossils of tiny marine organisms to reconstruct global temperatures back to the end of the last ice age. It shows how the globe for several thousands of years was cooling until an unprecedented reversal in the 20th century.

The decade of 1900 to 1910 was one of the coolest in the past 11,300 years — cooler than 95 percent of the other years, the marine fossil data suggest. Yet 100 years later, the decade of 2000 to 2010 was one of the warmest, said study lead author Shaun Marcott of Oregon State University. Global thermometer records only go back to 1880, and those show the last decade was the hottest for this more recent time period.

“In 100 years, we’ve gone from the cold end of the spectrum to the warm end of the spectrum,” Marcott said. “We’ve never seen something this rapid. Even in the ice age the global temperature never changed this quickly.”

[octoberlib]

1. Scary. nt

[limpyhobbler]

2. This is quite alarming.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, greenman.

[Downwinder]

4. When we talk about the old days,

we will really have something to talk about.