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Back to Index Back to Index Estimated global mean temperatures over the past 100,000 years
Estimated global mean temperatures over the past 100,000 years
Figure 22. Estimated global mean temperatures over the past 100,000 years spanning the last ice age and the present interglacial. Note particularly the Younger Dryas cold period about 12,000 years before present which temporarily delayed the end of the last ice age.

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