Paleoclimate data reveal instances of rapid global warming, as much as 5 — 6 °C, as a sudden additional
warming spike during a longer period of gradual warming [see Text S1].
Although all stations experienced
a warming spike during the 1972 - 74 El Nino / La Nina event, that peak was typically a degree lower than the 1950s.
The actual empirical evidence from state - of - the - art measurement technology reveals a global
warming spike during the late 1990's (due to the Super El Nino), but after that, essentially zilch.
Paleoclimate data reveal instances of rapid global warming, as much as 5 — 6 °C, as a sudden additional
warming spike during a longer period of gradual warming [see Text S1].
There are only a few points that show excursions from the trend now,
warming spikes during WWII and a shift in cooling for a few years around 1910:
Not exact matches
Every year
during the
warm summer months, veterinarians see a
spike in the number of pets with heat related illnesses.
Unfortunately, in the ER, I see a huge
spike in trauma to dogs and cats
during the summer... particularly on days with nice, sunny
warm weather.
One of the top three strongest events on record, this particular
warming of sea surfaces in the Pacific coincided with never before seen global heat as atmospheric CO2 levels
spiked to above 405 parts per million on some days
during February and March.
The correlation between Greenland ice core data and solar flux, is also seen in Scandinavian tree ring data.15 Tree rings suggest the
warmest decade in the past 2000 years, happened
during the
warm spike of the Roman Warm Period between 27 and 56
warm spike of the Roman
Warm Period between 27 and 56
Warm Period between 27 and 56 AD.
During this cooling trend, there were several
warm spikes, usually associated with life - enhancing inflows of both
warm Pacific and Atlantic water.
After a period of resumed cooling a new
warm spike occurred 1000 years ago during the Medieval Warm Per
warm spike occurred 1000 years ago
during the Medieval
Warm Per
Warm Period.
However
warm spikes due to high solar output punctuated this cooling trend roughly every thousand years.22 The unprecedented Holocene glacier growth
during the Little Ice Age occurred when solar output was extremely low.
During the cooler Iron Age the glacier began to grow, but rapidly retreated during the warm spike of the Roman Warm P
During the cooler Iron Age the glacier began to grow, but rapidly retreated
during the warm spike of the Roman Warm P
during the
warm spike of the Roman Warm Per
warm spike of the Roman
Warm Per
Warm Period.
To put that «acceleration» in historical context,
during July 1915 the global
warming trend had a real
spike... a 15.4 °C per century
spike without any meaningful increase of CO2 over the prior 3 years.
We also include in the category of slow feedbacks the global
warming spikes, or «hyperthermals», that have occurred a number of times in Earth's history
during the course of slower global
warming trends.
A new study is shedding light on what that could mean for the future by providing the first direct physical evidence of a massive release of carbon from permafrost
during a
warming spike at the end of the last glacial period.
After the Holocene Optimum, temps were undergoing a slow downward trend globally, with significant
spikes up and down
during such events as the 8.2 KY event, the Roman
Warm Period, the MWP, and the LIA, etc..