{"id":383096,"date":"2025-06-13T19:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=383096"},"modified":"2025-06-13T19:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:10:47","slug":"another-study-indicates-china-was-7c-warmer-than-today-throughout-much-of-the-holocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=383096","title":{"rendered":"Another Study Indicates China Was 7\u00b0C Warmer Than Today Throughout Much Of The Holocene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gahai Lake (China)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From NoTrickZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evidence for a much warmer Mid-Holocene keeps accumulating.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

According to a recent paleoclimate study<\/a><\/strong>, today\u2019s Gahai Lake (China) reconstructed surface sediment warm season temperature is 9.4\u00b0C. This is similar to the region\u2019s documented meteorological station temperatures (8.8\u00b0C, May-September).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reconstruction\u2019s average Gahai Lake sediment warm season temperatures dating to 8000 to 3500 years ago was determined to be 16.5\u00b0C. This means the region was more than 7\u00b0C warmer than recent decades during those millennia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Hou et al., 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another\u00a0new study<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from the Gulf of Thailand provides robust evidence sea levels were 1.8 \u2013 2.3 m higher than today from 8600 to 6100 years ago. Sea levels were higher because less water was locked up on land as ice throughout the much warmer Mid-Holocene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Leknettip et al., 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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