Cool #ClimateChange reporting from @alexwitze
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04002-5
Remember all the news ‘hottest day in 125000 yrs’?
During one of such previous 4 interglacial periods — when *annual* global temperatures were lower than today, at least one corner of Greenland was melted - enough to raise global seas by ~½ meter.
The GreenDrill project #LDEO #Columbia uses Cosmogenic Isotopes (like Carbon-14, here Beryllium-10) to determine when parts of Greenland were ice free.
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