Again, we need more & better studies of Marine Isotope Stage 5/the Eemian/the Sangamonian/the Last Interglacial.
And the Pleistocene more generally.
We live in a world with devastated ecologies and we've done it for more than 10,000 years.
We literally don't understand how our world "should" be.
And the Pleistocene more generally.
We live in a world with devastated ecologies and we've done it for more than 10,000 years.
We literally don't understand how our world "should" be.
I’m not disputing what you’re saying here, but there’s still something that bugs me. Let me explain:
We know that during the Pleistocene, our ecosystems typically contained very large populations of grazers. The idea of Europe having a natural vegetation consisting of dense forest is not accurate,
We know that during the Pleistocene, our ecosystems typically contained very large populations of grazers. The idea of Europe having a natural vegetation consisting of dense forest is not accurate,
September 21, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Again, we need more & better studies of Marine Isotope Stage 5/the Eemian/the Sangamonian/the Last Interglacial.
And the Pleistocene more generally.
We live in a world with devastated ecologies and we've done it for more than 10,000 years.
We literally don't understand how our world "should" be.
And the Pleistocene more generally.
We live in a world with devastated ecologies and we've done it for more than 10,000 years.
We literally don't understand how our world "should" be.
Wat een prachtige boot!
Ik roeide bij roeivereniging “De Eem” in de jaren ‘60.
En eens schreef ik erover: earthsciencesociety.com/2014/02/09/t...
Ik roeide bij roeivereniging “De Eem” in de jaren ‘60.
En eens schreef ik erover: earthsciencesociety.com/2014/02/09/t...
The Eemian and the #Anthropocene
Figure 1. River Eem at town of Eemdijk (to the right), Netherlands. The view is to the North. Eem floodplain (ca. 1 m below MSL) to the left. Location of photo: 52o15’17.65″N, 5019̵…
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September 12, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Wat een prachtige boot!
Ik roeide bij roeivereniging “De Eem” in de jaren ‘60.
En eens schreef ik erover: earthsciencesociety.com/2014/02/09/t...
Ik roeide bij roeivereniging “De Eem” in de jaren ‘60.
En eens schreef ik erover: earthsciencesociety.com/2014/02/09/t...
The humble Eem - and I wrote about it: earthsciencesociety.com/2014/02/09/t...
The Eemian and the #Anthropocene
Figure 1. River Eem at town of Eemdijk (to the right), Netherlands. The view is to the North. Eem floodplain (ca. 1 m below MSL) to the left. Location of photo: 52o15’17.65″N, 5019̵…
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September 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The humble Eem - and I wrote about it: earthsciencesociety.com/2014/02/09/t...
To put it very simply: the situation is extremely severe!
During the warmest period of the Eemian (120k-125k yrs ago), the GMSST was around 17°C!
In the pre-industrial era it was 16.1°C.
Sea levels were 6-9 meters higher during the Eemian!
To complete the picture, just take a look at these graphs:
During the warmest period of the Eemian (120k-125k yrs ago), the GMSST was around 17°C!
In the pre-industrial era it was 16.1°C.
Sea levels were 6-9 meters higher during the Eemian!
To complete the picture, just take a look at these graphs:
September 9, 2026 at 12:52 PM
To put it very simply: the situation is extremely severe!
During the warmest period of the Eemian (120k-125k yrs ago), the GMSST was around 17°C!
In the pre-industrial era it was 16.1°C.
Sea levels were 6-9 meters higher during the Eemian!
To complete the picture, just take a look at these graphs:
During the warmest period of the Eemian (120k-125k yrs ago), the GMSST was around 17°C!
In the pre-industrial era it was 16.1°C.
Sea levels were 6-9 meters higher during the Eemian!
To complete the picture, just take a look at these graphs:
Yeah, I'd buy that this is the hottest average ocean temperature for the Holocene. Maybe since the Eemian.
Two weeks ago. #climate
Two weeks ago. #climate
And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940):
August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!
August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!
August 31, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Yeah, I'd buy that this is the hottest average ocean temperature for the Holocene. Maybe since the Eemian.
Two weeks ago. #climate
Two weeks ago. #climate
A global atmospheric methane record from a tropical ice core
->Nature | More on "Tropical ice core methane analysis" at BigEarthData.ai | #methane
->Nature | More on "Tropical ice core methane analysis" at BigEarthData.ai | #methane
A global atmospheric methane record from a tropical ice core
The most recent 2,000 years of the SCA CH4 data are compared with CH4 data from the GISP2 and WAIS Divide cores7 to evaluate the latitudinal methane variability (Fig. 1a,b). During the PI period (0 CE to 1850 CE), the GISP2 CH4 record shows an average concentration that is 48 ppb higher than the WAIS Divide record, indicating dominance of Northern Hemisphere CH4 emissions7. Other polar records show comparable PI values, for example, the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) core20 records a PI average only 2 ppb higher than that from the GISP2 core, whereas the average from the Law Dome Antarctic record21 is 16 ppb higher than that from the WAIS core. The increase in CH4 after the PI period is the most prominent feature of the CH4 records over the past 2,000 years (refs. 9,20). The higher methane concentrations in SCA compared with those in the polar records are expected due to the equatorial location of Huascarán and its proximity to dominant tropical sources2,3. The average SCA CH4 concentration during the PI is 46 ppb higher than the average GISP2 concentration, 48 ppb higher than NEEM, 78 higher than Law Dome and 94 ppb higher than WAIS...
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August 19, 2026 at 7:31 PM
To put the summer of 2026 into some kind of historic perspective, one has to go back 125,000 years to the Eemian interglacial period, where a shift in the Earth’s orbit warmed the northern hemisphere to similar temperatures. This time the cause is fossil fuel emissions, with no easy way out.
August 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
To put the summer of 2026 into some kind of historic perspective, one has to go back 125,000 years to the Eemian interglacial period, where a shift in the Earth’s orbit warmed the northern hemisphere to similar temperatures. This time the cause is fossil fuel emissions, with no easy way out.
Current temperatures alone are not the proof of anything. The proof is the trend, i.e. the rate at which temperatures are rising year on year. It is not yet hotter than the hottest times in the Eemian Stage, but before long it will be. The above statement can be dismissed as "weather". Be clearer.
August 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Current temperatures alone are not the proof of anything. The proof is the trend, i.e. the rate at which temperatures are rising year on year. It is not yet hotter than the hottest times in the Eemian Stage, but before long it will be. The above statement can be dismissed as "weather". Be clearer.
#FunFact
On Wednesday the Daily Sea Surface Temperature (SST 60°S–60°N) reached 21.2°C.
If you want to find a day (!) with a higher value in the past, you have to go back to the Last Interglacial / Eemian Period about 125,000 years ago. #climatechange #thefuckingplanetisonfire
On Wednesday the Daily Sea Surface Temperature (SST 60°S–60°N) reached 21.2°C.
If you want to find a day (!) with a higher value in the past, you have to go back to the Last Interglacial / Eemian Period about 125,000 years ago. #climatechange #thefuckingplanetisonfire
August 7, 2026 at 4:50 AM
#FunFact
On Wednesday the Daily Sea Surface Temperature (SST 60°S–60°N) reached 21.2°C.
If you want to find a day (!) with a higher value in the past, you have to go back to the Last Interglacial / Eemian Period about 125,000 years ago. #climatechange #thefuckingplanetisonfire
On Wednesday the Daily Sea Surface Temperature (SST 60°S–60°N) reached 21.2°C.
If you want to find a day (!) with a higher value in the past, you have to go back to the Last Interglacial / Eemian Period about 125,000 years ago. #climatechange #thefuckingplanetisonfire
9) The Eemian by JA Schultz: satellite traces on pre-1957 space photos lead to conclusion that they come from satellite launched by ancient Earth civilization. Plausible, fun
July 22, 2026 at 5:15 AM
9) The Eemian by JA Schultz: satellite traces on pre-1957 space photos lead to conclusion that they come from satellite launched by ancient Earth civilization. Plausible, fun
You have enough money for only one. Which of these two journaling game zines by Paul Czege do you buy from just the back cover text?
#journalGaming
#journalGaming
July 19, 2026 at 8:31 PM
You have enough money for only one. Which of these two journaling game zines by Paul Czege do you buy from just the back cover text?
#journalGaming
#journalGaming
Climate change is normal, unchanging Climate abnormal, whatever the cause on this occasion.
Dramatic change has occurred before, suggest look at the Eemian for examples of abrupt climate events. Ice core, deep sea sediments, pollen all show dramatic environmental changes within a few centuries
Dramatic change has occurred before, suggest look at the Eemian for examples of abrupt climate events. Ice core, deep sea sediments, pollen all show dramatic environmental changes within a few centuries
July 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Climate change is normal, unchanging Climate abnormal, whatever the cause on this occasion.
Dramatic change has occurred before, suggest look at the Eemian for examples of abrupt climate events. Ice core, deep sea sediments, pollen all show dramatic environmental changes within a few centuries
Dramatic change has occurred before, suggest look at the Eemian for examples of abrupt climate events. Ice core, deep sea sediments, pollen all show dramatic environmental changes within a few centuries
Possible a hominid did though. If Bison had a habitat to cross through in the Eemian, humans did too.
We forget that we can only really measure when a reproductively viable population takes off in large enough members to leave evidence. Lots of weird one offs could have happened.
We forget that we can only really measure when a reproductively viable population takes off in large enough members to leave evidence. Lots of weird one offs could have happened.
July 13, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Possible a hominid did though. If Bison had a habitat to cross through in the Eemian, humans did too.
We forget that we can only really measure when a reproductively viable population takes off in large enough members to leave evidence. Lots of weird one offs could have happened.
We forget that we can only really measure when a reproductively viable population takes off in large enough members to leave evidence. Lots of weird one offs could have happened.
I avoided the term "Eemian", even in the one study that was focused on Europe!
July 6, 2026 at 5:19 AM
I avoided the term "Eemian", even in the one study that was focused on Europe!
Ah, the Eemian*
*I hate this term almost as much as I hate the “Würmian”
*I hate this term almost as much as I hate the “Würmian”
July 6, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Ah, the Eemian*
*I hate this term almost as much as I hate the “Würmian”
*I hate this term almost as much as I hate the “Würmian”
Fossils from German Quarry Reveal New Subspecies of European Leopard | Sci.News share.google/Hbu20kulYI9Y...
Fossils from German Quarry Reveal New Subspecies of European Leopard | Sci.News
Named Panthera pardus burgtonnae, the newly-identified leopard subspecies roamed Europe during the Eemian interglacial period and was far more heavily built than modern leopards.
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July 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Fossils from German Quarry Reveal New Subspecies of European Leopard | Sci.News share.google/Hbu20kulYI9Y...
The Eemian change was caused by the Earth being at just the right place at just the right time: we were at our closest point to the sun & our northern hemisphere was tilted at just the right angle to cause catastrophic melting of ice sheets. Something that’s only occurred once in 125,000 years.
July 2, 2026 at 2:13 PM
The Eemian change was caused by the Earth being at just the right place at just the right time: we were at our closest point to the sun & our northern hemisphere was tilted at just the right angle to cause catastrophic melting of ice sheets. Something that’s only occurred once in 125,000 years.
Except that we have evidence of previous dramatic climate change; the early Eemian for example, a 3m sea rise in a single century; Arctic summer temperatures spiked 4–5 °C higher than pre-industrial levels, allowing forests to extend into the Arctic Circle.
July 2, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Except that we have evidence of previous dramatic climate change; the early Eemian for example, a 3m sea rise in a single century; Arctic summer temperatures spiked 4–5 °C higher than pre-industrial levels, allowing forests to extend into the Arctic Circle.
Last night was the hottest night in France since at least the Medieval Warm Period (900 years ago) and possibly since the Eemian (125,000 years ago). #NothingToSeeHere #MoveRightAlong
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
France records hottest-ever night as 40 drown trying to escape heatwave
France struggles with extreme heat and power grid challenges as temperature records also smashed in parts of UK, Spain.
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June 23, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Last night was the hottest night in France since at least the Medieval Warm Period (900 years ago) and possibly since the Eemian (125,000 years ago). #NothingToSeeHere #MoveRightAlong
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
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Most people alive today will live to see the Arctic Ocean lose its summer ice — for the first time since before our species left Africa, 115,000 years ago
The Arctic Ocean has had ice on it, in some form, for essentially the entire span of recognisably modern human existence. The most recent…
The Arctic Ocean has had ice on it, in some form, for essentially the entire span of recognisably modern human existence. The most recent…
Most people alive today will live to see the Arctic Ocean lose its summer ice — for the first time since before our species left Africa, 115,000 years ago
The Arctic Ocean has had ice on it, in some form, for essentially the entire span of recognisably modern human existence. The most recent interglacial period warm enough to have melted the summer ice cap was the Eemian, approximately 130,000 to 115,000 years ago, during which paleoclimate evidence suggests the Arctic was seasonally ice-free at [...] The post Most people alive today will live to see the Arctic Ocean lose its summer ice — for the first time since before our species left Africa, 115,000 years ago appeared first on Space Daily .
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June 18, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Most people alive today will live to see the Arctic Ocean lose its summer ice — for the first time since before our species left Africa, 115,000 years ago
The Arctic Ocean has had ice on it, in some form, for essentially the entire span of recognisably modern human existence. The most recent…
The Arctic Ocean has had ice on it, in some form, for essentially the entire span of recognisably modern human existence. The most recent…
Eemian palaeogenetics demonstrates loss of diversity in modern fallow deer (Dama dama) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42291264/
June 16, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Eemian palaeogenetics demonstrates loss of diversity in modern fallow deer (Dama dama) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42291264/
Hemmer, H., Kahlke, RD. Panthera pardus burgtonnae ssp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the Eemian of Burgtonna (Thuringia, Germany) – Late Pleistocene European leopards in a new perspective. Palaeobio Palaeoenv (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s125...
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June 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Hemmer, H., Kahlke, RD. Panthera pardus burgtonnae ssp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the Eemian of Burgtonna (Thuringia, Germany) – Late Pleistocene European leopards in a new perspective. Palaeobio Palaeoenv (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s125...
Eemian palaeogenetics demonstrates loss of diversity in modern fallow deer (Dama dama) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Genetisk variation (mtDNA) bland tio dovhjortar från Tyskland 120 000 YBP som dagens europeiska population indikerar 1) gemensamt ursprung, 2) inte en ’främmande art’
Genetisk variation (mtDNA) bland tio dovhjortar från Tyskland 120 000 YBP som dagens europeiska population indikerar 1) gemensamt ursprung, 2) inte en ’främmande art’
Eemian palaeogenetics demonstrates loss of diversity in modern fallow deer (Dama dama)
The European fallow deer (Dama dama) is a widely distributed cervid that has experienced extensive human management since the Neolithic. Although seve…
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June 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Eemian palaeogenetics demonstrates loss of diversity in modern fallow deer (Dama dama) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Genetisk variation (mtDNA) bland tio dovhjortar från Tyskland 120 000 YBP som dagens europeiska population indikerar 1) gemensamt ursprung, 2) inte en ’främmande art’
Genetisk variation (mtDNA) bland tio dovhjortar från Tyskland 120 000 YBP som dagens europeiska population indikerar 1) gemensamt ursprung, 2) inte en ’främmande art’