Not exact matches
--- What is of concern is what happens when the waters
warm at even
greater depths, waters not
warmed enough to release during prior
interglacials, where there are (presumably) vast quantities of methyl clathrates.
The Antarctic ice cores, going back 800,000 years, then revealed that there were some
great summers when the Milankovich wobbles should have produced an
interglacial warming, but did not.
Oddly, despite promoting a threatened designation, the BRT reports Bearded Seals have existed for over 1 - 2 million years, surviving far
greater bouts of climate change as the earth bounced between several ice ages and
warmer interglacials.
The peak forcing in the Eemian was over 66 W / m2
greater than today (and it occurred in the middle of the
interglacial) so the statement that the Eemian was only 1 °C
warmer is just silly.
It is noteworthy that models in general predict the
greatest amounts of future
warming, while observationally - based studies, often about
interglacial - glacial transitions, or differences between geological eras, tend to come up with less
warming.