Today's climate resembles Earth 115,000 years ago [View all]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/06/todays-climate-resembles-earth-115000-years-ago/amp/

"Some 115,000 years ago, homo sapiens were still living in bands of hunter gatherers, largely confined to Africa. We still shared the globe with the Neanderthals, although it’s not clear we had met them yet.

And though these various hominids didn’t know it, the Earth was coming to the end of a major warm period. It was one that’s quite close to our current climate, but with one major discrepancy – seas at the time were 20 to 30 feet higher.

During this ancient period, sometimes called the Eemian, the oceans were about as warm as they are today. And last month, intriguing new research emerged suggesting that Northern Hemisphere glaciers have already retreated just as far as they did in the Eemian, driven by dramatic warming in Arctic regions."