Highest recorded temperature in 130,000 years?

As we wave good bye to El Nino at the end of the warming phase of the 60 year temperature cycle, barring another and stronger El Nino in the next few years, it looks unlikely that we’ll see another global temperature as high until 2070 – which for most climate sceptics means it will probably be the highest temperature we ever see.
But then an even more sobering thought hit. The world is now on the long downward slope heading to the next ice-age. And unless one of the next few peaks tops 2016, then it will get increasingly difficult for natural variation to bring global temperatures up to current temperatures.
Then an even more depression thought hit me …. which is that the next ice-age could last up to 130,000 years (if we miss the Milankovitch “pace-maker” hit at 90k, then it’ll probably be another 40k till the frozen earth gets another few millennium of the inter-glacial.)
Now I think about it, I really should have bought some papers when they had the headline “warmest evah” headlines, because they could become quite valuable – not just for the stupidity of the view that warming is bad, but because very soon children might not know what a newspaper is.
 

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One Response to Highest recorded temperature in 130,000 years?

  1. pinroot says:

    Another thing about newspapers, they’re great for starting a nice, warm fire 🙂

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