New Study: East Antarctica Was Up To 6°C Warmer Than Today During The Medieval Warm Period
By Kenneth Richard on 15. October 2020
As recently as 2000 to 1000 years ago, spanning the Roman to Medieval Warm Periods, East Antarctica was 5-6°C warmer than it is today. The consequent ice melt resulted in >60 meters higher water levels in East Antarctica’s lakes.
East Antarctica has been rapidly cooling in recent decades, with magnitudes reaching -0.7°C to -2.0°C per decade since the mid-1980s (Obryk et al., 2020).
A new study (Myers et al., 2020) reports that until about 15,000 years ago and throughout the Last Glacial Maximum, East Antarctica was 4-9°C colder than it is today.
https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/15/new-study-east-antarctica-was-up-to-6c-warmer-than-today-during-the-medieval-warm-period/
