According to a press release from the British Antarctic Survey, temperatures of the Antarctic peninsula were 1.3°C warmer than today 11,000 years ago.
Examination of a graph from the paper [below] also indicates nearby sea surface temperatures were up to a remarkable 10°C warmer than the 1961-1990 mean 12,000 years ago as the Earth emerged from the last major ice age. The graph also indicates the Antarctic peninsula warmed at a much faster rate from 13,000 to 12,000 years ago than over the past 1000 years. Greenhouse gases could not possibly explain this radical climate change, especially given the fact that there was little change in greenhouse gases during these periods and that infrared radiation from greenhouse gases cannot heat the oceans.
Hi. There is an order of magnitude discrepancy between your headline and the first sentence. Is this down to junk editing?
Nope, read the item.
My apologies.
No problems Grump-pa, always good to have someone making sure we get it right.