interglacial

The interglacial warming is the most likely origin of the catastrophic global flood mythos across many cultures (including the Bible).

Evidence suggests that during the warmest part of interglacial periods, they hybridise with Grizzlies and then re-speciate when the climate cools down again.

Either the interglacial period is not over yet, or we are actively preventing the next glaciation.

Last interglacial period (with temperatures higher than today) was 100k years ago.

It is pretty unique that we have had a temperature rise at anything but the very last years of an interglacial.

What I meant is we are in the interglacial period between two glacial periods.

> The Last Interglacial climate is believed to have been warmer than the current Holocene.

The holocene interglacial is what we are living in now.

But we are at the end of an interglacial.

If the holocene interglacial really is extended to a million years, it would likely be enough time for the polar ice caps to disappear completely, ending the quarternary ice age altogether.

Ancient humans are known to have inhabited the southern tip of Africa into the last interglacial period, and human migration across and settlement in the occasionally green Sahara could explain some things.

And assuming that the recent plateau doesn't signal the beginning of the end of the interglacial, which, I'm sure you'll agree, would be a far worse problem than global warming...

We're currently in an "interglacial" within a period of icehouse climate that has persisted since the late Eocene.

Then again, I don't know what the "holocene interglacial" is, so your other points are probably well founded.

And if so, whether that is for the better or for the worse in the grand scheme of things is yet to be seen; geologists say that we are "due" for another glacial period, based on previous glacial and interglacial periods.

We already know that we are currently in an ice age that goes through cycles of glacial periods (such as the colloquially named "last ice age") where a lot of North America, Europe and Siberia are covered in ice sheets; and warmer interglacial periods, such as this one, where the poles are covered by ice sheets (and also Greenland and various glaciers, and at high altitudes).