{"id":425758,"date":"2026-02-11T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=425758"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:17:06","slug":"pollen-reconstructions-show-the-last-glacials-warming-events-were-global-10x-greater-than-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=425758","title":{"rendered":"Pollen Reconstructions Show the Last Glacial\u2019s Warming Events Were Global, 10x Greater Than Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From No Trick Zone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

\u201cD\u2013O signals [10-16\u00b0C warming events within decades to centuries] are not just seen in Greenland \u2013 they are registered globally.\u201d \u2013 Liu et al., 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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From 57,000 to 29,000 years ago, with Last Glacial atmospheric CO2 concentrations flatlining at ~200 ppm, there were 11 instances when Greenland abruptly warmed by 10-16\u00b0C within a span of just 50 to 200 years (Liu et al., 2026<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wide-ranging pollen-based temperature and precipitation reconstructions affirm these Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) events did not just occur in Greenland, they were realized across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter warming intervals of 2-5\u00b0C and up to 5-20\u00b0C within decades (centuries) also occurred at pollen sites in Asia, Europe, South and Central America, Africa, Middle East, and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, there is nothing remotely unusual or unprecedented about the rate or magnitude of modern global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cD\u2013O signals [10-16\u00b0C warming events within decades to centuries] are not just seen in Greenland \u2013 they are registered globally.\u201d \u2013 Liu et al., 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":425763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"Explore how recent pollen reconstructions reveal global warming events of 10-16\u00b0C during the last glacial period. 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