Carrie Morrill of the National Climatic Data Center explains, "You'd have to go back to the last interglacial about 125,000 years ago to find temperatures significantly higher than temperatures of today."
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Interglacial
Synonyms for "interglacial"
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4 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 11 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- buzlaqarası adj (occurring between glaciations)
Catalan
1 entries- interglacial adj (occurring between glaciations)
Cornish
2 entries- ynterrewlivek adj (occurring between glaciations)
- prys ynterrewlivek noun (relatively warm period between glacial periods)
Danish
1 entries- mellemistid noun (relatively warm period between glacial periods)
Finnish
1 entries- interglasiaali noun (relatively warm period between glacial periods)
French
2 entries- interglaciaire adj (occurring between glaciations)
- post-glaciaire adj (occurring between glaciations)
German
3 entries- interglazial adj (occurring between glaciations)
- Interglazial noun (relatively warm period between glacial periods)
- Warmzeit noun (relatively warm period between glacial periods)
Hungarian
2 entries- interglaciális adj (occurring between glaciations)
- interglaciális noun (relatively warm period between glacial periods)
Irish
2 entries- idiroighreach adj (occurring between glaciations)
- tréimhse idiroighreach noun (relatively warm period between glacial periods)
Kazakh
1 entries- мұздықаралық adj (occurring between glaciations)
Vietnamese
1 entries- gian băng adj (occurring between glaciations)
Sample sentences
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The last interglacial period ended around 115,000 years ago when temperatures were less than one degree Celsius warmer than today, and sea levels were six meters higher.
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Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.
Source: wiktionary
The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.
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